The best part of the Road House remake is Jake Gyllenhaal, who makes his bouncer-warrior another one of his dark loner characters.
Read MoreContradiction is the governing thematic and formal design for Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic.
Read MoreChicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget is decent entertainment, but a significant step down from the original film.
Read MoreAlthough there are plenty of enjoyable Zack Snyder trademarks, the final result is never enough of its own thing.
Read MoreThe hit Netflix apocalyptic psychological thriller is a movie for our moment.
Read MoreThe Equalizer 3 blends together a brutal action film and a sentimental Hallmark-style drama about Italian village life.
Read MoreBen Affleck’s Air is an easygoing underdog sports drama without the sports.
Read MoreUnknown: Cave of Bones, the Netflix documentary about the Rising Star cave system, is often affecting, but overreaches on some of its scientific claims.
Read MoreShazam! Fury of the Gods is an affable sequel, but it also proves the DCEU has well and truly run out of gas.
Read MoreNoah Baumbach’s adaptation of the landmark postmodern novel by Don DeLillo fails to deliver despite the enduring relevance of the novel’s subjects and themes.
Read MoreDwayne Johnson’s DCEU superhero film is a pale imitation of a Zack Snyder film, and proof of why the DCEU is being rebooted.
Read MoreSean Anders’ musical riff on A Christmas Carol starring Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds is a hyperactive, amiable, and incoherent bit of Christmas content.
Read MoreRomain Gavras’ Athena is an impressive formal achievement, although it never manages to resolve the tensions between its operatic storytelling and its slightly-artificial visual approach.
Read MoreDavid Bruckner’s Hellraiser reboot is a flattened riff on the tale for a flattened cinematic culture.
Read MoreMorbius is a real superhero movie in the way that airplane food is real food.
Read MoreLast Night in Soho has an incredible premise and many excellent features, which makes it especially disappointing when the film goes off the rails.
Read MoreUsing animation to recreate the subjects’ memories, Eternal Spring considers the hijacking in 2002 of broadcast TV by a group of Falun Gong practitioners in northeastern China.
Joe and Anthony Russo’s Netflix action blockbuster is modestly diverting content, but ultimately pulls it punches.
Read MoreJoel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth is marked by a strong performance by Denzel Washington as well as a preoccupation with its own artifice.
Read MoreAs far as streaming content goes, Spiderhead isn’t bad, but it asks questions it has no real interest in answering.
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