Review: Venom

By the end, Venom’s full-tilt embrace of action effectively undermines Tom Hardy’s flashes of actorly idiosyncrasy.

Review: Dunkirk

The metronomic precision of director Christopher Nolan’s cinema is foregrounded in Dunkirk.

Review: Taboo

Taboo is perched somewhere between the utterly baroque, the intensely theatrical, and the routinely expositional.

Review: Legend

The script is so bereft of insight into its characters, there’s only so much even an actor of Tom Hardy’s stature can do.

Review: Child 44

It’s at once devoted to corroborating and casting an exaggerated light on Soviet paranoia and the state’s rhetoric of unmasking its enemies.

Review: The Drop

With its optimistic ending, the film muddies its previous statements regarding the danger of unthinkingly hanging on to totems of the past.

Review: Locke

The literalizing of Ivan Locke’s hidden self and his inability to master it ultimately exposes the film as the squarest kind of theater: drama therapy.