The film is a sensitive, dewy-eyed romance about two adults in the process of becoming.
Eternal You Review: Casting an Apprehensive Eye on the New Digital Afterlife Industry
The film approaches a new tech frontier with an objective, responsibly apprehensive, eye.
The Seeding’s scare tactics scare less than they remind us of other better and, yes, scarier films.
Like Identifying Features, Sujo favors leaving things unseen and unspoken.
The domestic box office wasn’t the only thing saved by Barbenheimer last year.
The film is remarkable for largely leaving emotions unresolved and relationships feeling messy.
The film is less focused on the freedom of catharsis than on the messiness of self-actualization.
The film only give voice to the politics informing the drama in spare moments of suspense.
Throughout The Beekeeper, our hero’s actions remain curiously unexamined by the filmmakers.
I Heard It Through the Grapevine Review: James Baldwin Reflects on His Time in the South
I Heard It Through the Grapevine makes the political personal at every turn.
In the film, the embrace of storytelling through song and dance is front and center.
The Book of Clarence has an energy that’s largely missing from its influences.
Gálvez discusses why his feature-length debut always had to exist within the western genre.
Johnson’s film is effectively a light-hearted version of David Fincher’s The Game.
There’s an elegiac beauty to the film’s pool scenes, but everything that surrounds them is leaden.
Mayhem! comes to a screeching halt when it’s functioning as a narrative delivery machine.
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom Review: The Final DCEU Film Is a Pro Forma Burial at Sea
The film hits its plot milestones as fast as humanly possible, cohesion or depth be damned.
Durkin discusses his approach to genre and the film’s thematic overlap with his prior work.
The film doesn’t bother to create a compelling world around its charming leads.
Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire Review: Zack Snyder’s Perplexing Star Wars Rip-Off
The relative grace of the action direction only underscores how disjointed the rest of the film is.
The Color Purple Review: Blitz Bazawule’s Fawning Movie Musical Is Echo-Chamber Karaoke
The film lacks the passion and the perspective to make the words and tunes truly resonate.