T Categories Movies Reviews November 17, 2022 The Good Nurse twists an unexpected friendship into a haunting tale of murder Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain shine in a haunting take on the ways medical trust can be abused.
F Categories Movies Reviews January 6, 2022 Female-led actioner The 355 is a big fat zero Simon Kinberg directs a shaky, dated girl-power actioner that wastes its overqualified cast.
T Categories Movies Reviews October 6, 2021 The Eyes of Tammy Faye looks at history from too far away Great performances cannot overcome a bland, distanced take on the biggest Evangelical scandal in U.S. history in The Eyes of Tammy Faye.
T Categories Festivals Movies Reviews TIFF 2021 September 17, 2021 TIFF 2021: The Forgiven offers up yet more rich white people problems Despite its top shelf cast & capable direction, this drama about tourists behaving badly is nothing we haven't seen before.
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& Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies Reviews November 28, 2020 “Zero Dark Thirty” refuses to take a stand Nearly eight years later, Zero Dark Thirty continues to court controversy by stubbornly refusing to argue for or against the lengths America took to find Osama bin Laden.
I Categories Anniversaries Movies October 16, 2020 Inside the blood-soaked Gothic romance of “Crimson Peak” Guillermo del Toro's criminally overlooked ode to Daphne du Maurier turns five, and it's as potent as ever.
I Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies September 4, 2019 IT Chapter Two Review: Flailing Like a Hapless Clown The second half of Andy Muschietti's Stephen King adaptation sinks under its mishmash of tones.
W Categories Movies June 5, 2019 With “Dark Phoenix”, The X-Men Series Eulogizes Itself The pioneering superhero franchise gets its last hurrah in the form of a messy, somber swan song.