This 'Faces of Death' reimagining from Daniel Goldhaber isn’t going to convert any new horror fans, but this overtly schlocky, grindhouse B-movie takes the concept of “is it real or…
Bob Odenkirk does not read as an action star. He knows this. You know this. And yet, here he is, three films deep into an unlikely second act as a guy who takes and delivers beatings on screen with the kind of bruised conviction that most traditional action leads can’t touch. With Normal, directed by...
A tired redux of decades of superior action-comedy movies, 'Normal' aspires to poke fun at the one-man army subset of the genre but fails to find much of anything interesting…
'The Drama' finds Zendaya and Robert Pattinson pulling apart at the seams in Kristoffer Borgli’s incisive, destabilizing anti-rom-com, a nervy A24 anxiety spiral that sits comfortably alongside 'Uncut Gems' and…
For the better part of the last decade, it has felt as if the theatrical experience has been standing on its last leg, waging its final war, poised to fend off a changing tide or be swept away by it. Between the rise and proliferation of streaming services and the COVID-19 pandemic – which shuttered...
Ian McKellen is phenomenal in 'The Christophers' - and Michaela Coel more than holds her own - a film that manages to be both thematically rich and genuinely crowd-pleasing. What…
Julia Ducournau’s third French body horror 'Alpha' is a concussive portrait of a family strained by the specter of a deadly virus, equal parts formally ambitious and puzzle-box cerebral mania.…
In 2026, Amanda Peet isn’t interested in holding anything back. In her most recent role in Fantasy Life, she plays Diane, a mother of three and working actor navigating a life that, on paper, is fully intact and quite successful, but internally feels much less stable. It’s a performance that resists easy categorization: there’s no...
A deeply cinematic and highly effective adaptation of Andy Weir’s novel, Project Hail Mary is anchored by a strong lead performance from Ryan Gosling and an engaging blend of crowd-pleasing…
Competent but unremarkable, ‘Ready or Not 2: Here I Come’ is a horror-comedy sequel that’s mostly just a forgettable extension of the original’s eat-the-satanic-rich premise, expanding the mythology without recapturing…