'A House of Dynamite' Review: Kathryn Bigelow's American Nuclear Thriller Explodes in a Vacuum
While enjoyable for its technical aspects, it’s another example of Kathryn Bigelow's tendency to spin her wheels by producing films with the same old frustrated aura.
'Late Fame' Review: Willem Dafoe Navigates Career Uncertainty and Nepo-Babies in Mellow NYC Satire
Kent Jones’ entertaining and scathing contemporary adaptation of 1895 fable about a an older poet and his new and younger adorning fans earns a snap or two.
‘The Smashing Machine' Review: Benny Safdie and Dwayne Johnson's Sports Bio-Drama is Full of Light Jabs
In his first solo venture, Benny Safdie holds up Mark Kerr up like Rafiki with Simba but fails to signify why he's holding him up in the first place.
‘One Battle After Another’ Review: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Postmodern Spectacle is the American Satire We Need Right Now
An audacious and ambitious epic.
‘Him’ Review: Obnoxious and Vapid Football Horror Fumbles the Ball at Every Play
A Peele-wannabe flick with little on its mind and nothing in its soul.
'Mile End Kicks' Review: Barbie Ferreira Rocks in Chandler Levack’s Delightful and Reflective Coming-of-age Music Dramedy
A Canadian's The Summer I Turned Pretty, but for the Almost Famous crowd.
'Tuner' Review: Entertaining Crime Thriller About a Safe-cracking Piano Tuner Plays All the Right Keys
Conventional as they come, but thoroughly entertaining nonetheless.
'Eleanor the Great' Review: Scarlett Johansson's Directorial Debut is a Moving Meditation on Grief, Enhanced by a Sublime June Squibb
Damn you, ScarJo, catching my grief on an off day.
'Little Amélie or the Character of Rain' Review: A God-Tier Animated Portrait of Early Childhood
This dazzling French 2D-animated film is full of imagination and sophistication.
‘Christy’ Review: Sydney Sweeney’s Mighty Punch Can’t Save This Generic, Oscar-Baity Sports Biopic
Fails to give Christy Salters the powerful punch her story deserves.