This is a work of exceptional sympathy, of one artist bonding with another and transcending his own failings as he explores the failings of another.
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Marjorie Prime is a modest science fiction film that prompts big questions about identity and memory.
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is funny and thoughtful with moments of arresting pathos, but it's also a little confounding.
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Wheelman is the sort of honest B-movie entertainment that Netflix ought to be funding more often.
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Atomic Blonde is an obvious, cliché and, most sadly, boring spy action film cobbled together from secondhand tropes and pop culture references.
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Justice League is merely good, while aspects of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and the presence of both Whedon and Snyder suggest that it could’ve been great.
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There’s no good reason for 11/8/16 to exist in this moment, beyond our obsessive need to relive past trauma with no desire to learn from it.
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There’s no better way to describe The Mission than as an exceptional jazz riff.
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As many films try to do but fail, it shows the man in the monster.
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This third Halloween film is worth a look for its horror thrills and critique of holiday consumerism.
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A buddy movie, not a monster movie.
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Perhaps the pre-eminent haunted house movie of all-time.
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A thematically satisfying new chapter of Ridley Scott’s Alien series.
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An assaultive exercise in found-footage terror.
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A staggeringly-coherent allegory with unrelenting emotional intensity.
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Innovates just enough to rise above its limitations.
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A genuine mega-hit that earns its popularity.
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Too slow-paced and saggy to work effectively as a heist comedy.
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Combines emotional depth with insight on race and culture.
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Let There Be Light is short and always remains engaging, even if it seems to be jumping the gun as pertains to this particular subject matter.
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