F Categories Movies October 4, 2019 First Love Review: Miike Maintains His Madcap Mania Takashi Miike's gazillionth film is a riotous yakuza caper that traffics in the filmmaker's impeccable balance of extremes.
M Categories Movies September 7, 2019 Monos Review: Flawed Guerilla Filmmaking Alejandro Landes' tense, probing portrait of child soldiers keeps its messages as muddy as its setting.
R Categories Movies August 16, 2019 Review: “47 Meters Down: Uncaged” Offers Silly Shark Fun Johannes Roberts' sequel to 2017's stripped-down aquatic thriller is packed to the gills with sharktastic mayhem.
T Categories Movies August 12, 2019 The Peanut Butter Falcon Review: Navigating Disability With Grace It's a little Sundance-y, but Tyler Wilson and Michael Schwarz craft a smart, balanced indie that avoids the usual pitfalls of the way movies tend to treat disability.
P Categories Movies August 2, 2019 Piranhas Review: Italian Crime Drama Swims Into Deadly Waters The latest adaptation of a Roberto Saviano novel is a familiar, but inventive crime drama.
S Categories Movies July 9, 2019 Stuber Review: Uber Cop Comedy Won’t Earn Five Stars Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista are their typical superlative selves, which just barely saves an otherwise tedious high-concept cop comedy
B Categories Movies June 21, 2019 Being Frank Review: A Shaggy Story About Dual Lives Jim Gaffigan's hangdog performance and an unexpectedly nuanced script elevate a stock comedy scenario into something genuinely thoughtful.
F Categories Movies June 20, 2019 Funan Review: An Animated Death March Through Pol Pot’s Cambodia Dennis Do's lushly animated recounting of the Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia is striking but lacks much-needed specificity.
W Categories TV May 21, 2019 What’s My Name – Muhammad Ali Review: Sports Doc Gets In Good Hits But Pulls Some Punches Antoine Fuqua's HBO doc about the greatest fighter of all time is an intriguing, if uneven, dive into the man behind the myth.
A Categories Movies April 4, 2019 Ash is Purest White Review: Jia Zhangke Embraces Long-Form Storytelling Once Again Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke returns to long-form storytelling with this feature-length tale of the twisted romance between a gangster and his moll.
