ARRIVAL Packs An Emotional Wallop
Director Denis Villeneuve has been on a great run. His previous films, Sicario, Enemy and Prisoners have been unique films …Read the Rest
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CHRISTINE Presents A Perceptive Character Study
“If it bleeds, it leads.” So says the manager of an independent TV station in this dark and disturbing biopic. …Read the Rest
MOONLIGHT Is A Seamless Coming-of-age Portrait
Richard Linklater spent 12 years shooting his coming-of-age feature Boyhood, all of it chronologically and in real time. It was …Read the Rest
HACKSAW RIDGE Mixes Melodrama With Brutality
It’s been, umm, awhile since we’ve seen a high profile Mel Gibson picture. His latest marks the first time the …Read the Rest
DOCTOR STRANGE Is Weird Enough To Make It a Trip Worth Taking
Frankly, the latest flick in the unending series of Marvel Studios superheroes has no business working at all. Doctor Strange …Read the Rest
INFERNO Flames Out Very Quickly
It has been seven years since we last saw author Dan Brown’s puzzle-solving professor on the big screen, in the …Read the Rest
JACK REACHER: NEVER GO BACK Feels Like More of the Same
To be honest, I wasn’t that big a fan of Tom Cruise’s first foray as Jack Reacher, a tough-as-nails ex-Major …Read the Rest
CERTAIN WOMEN Provides a Certain Sort of Boredom
Some art films present a “slice of life”. An unfiltered look at the world that avoids the tropes of the …Read the Rest
KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES Isn’t All That Necessary
Once again, what is funny to some is certainly not to others. A couple of weeks back I saw a …Read the Rest
THE ACCOUNTANT Doesn’t Add Up
I wonder who exactly thought that it would be a grand idea to title an action/thriller picture The Accountant? Heck, …Read the Rest