The 2005 film adaptation of C. S. Lewis’s children’s classic is worthwhile Christmas viewing.
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Wicked is doomed by the decision to inflate Act 1 into an entire 160-minute film.
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Clint Eastwood’s courtroom drama is a classical morality play in the vein of 12 Angry Men or Anatomy of a Murder.
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David Tedeschi’s new Beatles documentary fails to find anything new to say about the 20th century’s most popular band.
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Edward Berger’s Conclave is a lot of fun. Just don’t confuse it for more than a potboiler.
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Take Out, Sean Baker’s debut feature co-directed by Shih-Ching Tso, reveals a strong authorial voice and anticipates the focus of many of Baker’s later features.
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Yet another meta-legacy sequel, Gladiator II also delivers some of the most rousing action spectacle of recent years.
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Short reviews for the 2024 Toronto Reel Asian Toronto International Film Festival.
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Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian are great in Rose Glass’s erotic neo-noir, but the grab bag of genre elements leaves something to be desired.
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Jack Smight’s 1969 adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s short story collection is not an ideal adaptation, but does capture some of surreal power of Bradbury’s work.
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Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs is an inconsistent mishmash of The Silence of the Lambs and Cure.
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Frank Darabont’s Stephen King horror adaptation plays like a dry run for The Walking Dead.
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This sequel to the surprise Netflix horror hit, The Platform, loses the elegance of its predecessor.
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Shyamalan’s 2004 film has its merits, but revisiting it reveals the muddled philosophy that drives it and robs it of many key thrills.
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The Faculty is Invasion of the Body Snatchers for the MTV generation.
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Francis Ford Coppola's strange political fable is an absurd, admirable moonshot of a film.
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David Ayers' The Beekeeper is one of the most gloriously dumb movies of recent years.
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Paul Schrader's Oh, Canada is for true Schrader heads only.
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Malcolm Washington's The Piano Lesson relies on the strength of its source material to compensate for some of its ambitious, if uneven, filmmaking choices.
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