She Came to Me
The ending is quite charming—and so is the beginning—in She Came to Me, Rebecca Miller's (Personal Velocity, Maggies Plan) offbeat romance about an aging opera composer attempting to make a [...]
The Royal Hotel
While the suffocating and lurking elements of The Assistant (2020) may have been the most impressive factor, the emotional depth of courage and endurance invested by Kitty Green in the [...]
Totally Killer
At this point in cinematic history, it is baffling that a horror movie has failed to properly take advantage of the Back to the Future formula, sending its protagonist(s) back [...]
Saw X
As the horror genre has moved on to new influences and the popularity of nostalgia has begun to wane, the 19 year old Saw franchise returns with its tenth film, [...]
The Creator
In contemporary Hollywood, with the propensity for inflated budgets leading to entire sets made of green or blue screen and an over-reliance on digital effects, it is difficult to come [...]
Cassandro
A bone-jarring and equally sensual mix of human emotion and lucha libre smackdowns, Cassandro shapes up as a compelling biographical character study about Mexican luchador pro wrestler Saúl Armendariz, who [...]
It Lives Inside
In recent years, the horror genre has experienced a renaissance in terms of multicultural representation within its previously restrictive space; different ethnic groups are emerging into the forefront of horror, [...]
Dumb Money
We have had many films be released about the current century's most trying historical events ranging from 9/11, to the IRAQ War, and the 2008 Financial crises to name just [...]
El Conde
Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín (Jackie, Spencer) pulls another famous historical figure back from the dead, this time for a deftly executed satire about the murderous dictator, Augusto Pinochet. El Conde [...]
A Haunting in Venice
In 2017, Kenneth Branagh, often an adaptor of classic literature in his work as an actor/director, set his sights on a new author and character: Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot. While [...]