‘The Miracle Club’ Review: Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates And Laura Linney Star – That’s More Than Enough
Anything that brings Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates and Laura Linney together for a smart and engaging movie that will lift your spirits these days...
‘Past Lives’ Review: This Is One of the Year’s Best Movies
The movie is called Past Lives, but that’s not precisely how the title appears onscreen. When it shows up in the opening and closing credits, it looks...
‘They Cloned Tyrone’ Review: John Boyega, Teyonah Parris & Jamie Foxx In Grim But Gutsy Genre Mashup
Rather resembling a blaxploitation-based cousin of Invasion of the Body Snatchers with a deeper sense of social consciousness, They Cloned Tyrone is a predominately...
‘Across the Spider-Verse’ Review: A Sequel With Great Power
There are generally two types of sequels: The ones that rehash the previous film’s success for financial gain, and the ones that use the previous film’s...
‘Blaga’s Lessons’ Review: Brutal Drama Packs A Provocative Punch – Karlovy Vary Int’l Film Festival
The lessons learned in this pitch-black German-Bulgarian co-production are very grim indeed, a social-realist drama that takes an unexpectedly shocking turn at its harrowing...
‘The Flash’ Review: Keaton’s Batman Returns to Save This Movie
Michael Keaton was supposed to star in a third Batman movie in the 1990s. Even after Tim Burton was replaced by Joel Schumacher as the director...
‘Barbie’ Review: Greta Gerwig Strikes The Balance Between Comedy, Commentary & Camp
Barbie is a surprisingly profound film, more philosophical and existential than one initially would expect from a franchise rooted in plastic fashion dolls that...
‘Flamin’ Hot’ Review: A Lukewarm Snack Chip Biopic
“We all write our own stories,” announces Richard Montañez in his voiceover narration for Flamin’ Hot, the film that dares to reveal the origin of the popular Flamin’...