S Categories Features Festivals Movies Reviews Sundance 2022 January 27, 2022 Sundance 2022: Call Jane turns history into melodrama Call Jane takes a compelling story about abortion activists and turns it into cheap melodrama.
& Categories Movies P.S.H. I Love You May 4, 2021 “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay” is a strange final film for Philip Seymour Hoffman Philip Seymour Hoffman's final role, as a CG-assisted reprise in the final Hunger Games films, is more a commemoration than a performance.
R Categories Anniversaries Features Movies June 25, 2020 Revisiting the himbo fantasia of “Magic Mike XXL” Five years on, the sequel to the seminal dude-dancing movie remains a feminist celebration of desire.
C Categories Movies November 12, 2019 Charlie’s Angels Review: Stylish Reboot is More of a McB, McB+ Elizabeth Banks revives the girl-power action franchise with new blood and a solid if formulaic actioner.
B Categories Movies May 22, 2019 Brightburn Review: With Great Power Comes Great Sociopathy James Gunn produces a lean, mean, messy genre exercise that supposes Superman was more Damien than Clark Kent.
& Categories Movies February 6, 2019 “The LEGO Movie 2” Review: Everything is About Half as Awesome While it maintains the same dazzling, frenetic charm of the original LEGO Movie, The Second Part doesn't manage to recapture the miracle of the first.