Review: Ragnarok

In the end, any and all potential B-movie fun is extinguished by the film’s depressingly listless anonymity.

Review: Hercules

The film fluctuates haphazardly between semi-serious reverence and tongue-in-cheek camp, with no shortage of opportunities for the inevitable Rifftrax accompaniment.

Review: America

The doc is beholden to the same plethora of taboos, half-truths, and outright lies traded en masse by mainstream conservatism for the last seven years.

Review: That Demon Within

It rarely feels like anything more than an effort to pander to the kind of audiences that enjoy Quentin Tarantino’s films for all the wrong reasons.

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Review: Winnie Mandela

The film’s tonal inconsistencies speak less to the struggles of its titular subject than to its own grasp-exceeding ambitions.

Review: Out of the Clear Blue Sky

By de-emphasizing politics in favor of humanitarianism, Danielle Gardner’s work also suggests how Americans might yet unify even as the world around them threatens to tear itself apart.

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Review: Postales

Throughout the film, writer-director Jash Hyde avoids Paul Haggis’s patronizing white liberal attitude toward class warfare.

Review: Nicky’s Family

A powerful chapter in human history is made melodramatic and dull through Matej Minac’s indulgence of hokey reenactments and sound-augmented archival footage.