Film Reviews & Insights
Armageddon Time
Absorbing and poignant, casually didactic and deeply personal, James Gray's Armageddon Time ends up being as engaging as it is uneven and glum. A fictionalized look at the filmmaker's childhood [...]
The Banshees of Inisherin
In a return to his roots, renowned British-Irish playwright and filmmaker Martin McDonagh does wonders in The Banshees of Inisherin. Marking his first film in the U.K. with an original [...]
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
Edward Berger’s anti-war epic All Quiet on the Western Front is a realistically graphic and riveting film based on the 1929 book of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque. [...]
Holy Spider
Modern Iran's worst serial killer, Saeed Hanaei, and the 16 female victims he lured into his home are chronicled in Iranian-born filmmaker Ali Abbasi's third feature, titled Holy Spider. The [...]
Tár
Todd Field's high-minded and sophisticated mastery carries on with his third feature film, Tár, a dense and deeply layered saga that has a lot to say about artistry, cancel culture, [...]
Black Adam
While not as iconic as the upper echelon of DC characters, Black Adam as actually been around since the mid 1940’s. The character, initially introduced as a villain to Captain [...]
Ticket to Paradise
Ticket to Paradise is one of the broad romantic comedies we have all seen before. You know the kind like 50 First Dates, Couples Retreat, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall where [...]
Aftersun
Highly sensory filmmaking and a heartfelt performance by Paul Mescal pull off an unusual balance of wooziness and sincerity in Aftersun, a hypnotic and elliptical mood piece centered on a [...]
Till
Although it has all the markings of being a routine message Oscar bait movie, Till is one of the most notable social justice films to be released as of late. [...]
Halloween Ends
It’s hard to think of a franchise with more retcons, different timelines, and broken continuity than the Halloween franchise. How strange to think that a classic horror film from 1978 [...]
Decision to Leave
An engrossing, whodunit murder mystery about desire, murder, and forbidden love, Decision to Leave is a complicated and intricate mind-game of a movie. The film directed with such vigorous craftsmanship [...]