Surreal ‘Piercing’ is a diabolically amusing exercise in misunderstood psychopaths trying to fill the proverbial void in their lives through violent means. Snappy, satirical, kinky, and with a killer ending…
Love ’em or hate ’em, horror movies are more popular now than they have ever been. And for great reason. This decade has delivered a multitude of diverse horror options, smashing box office records, and even earning a slew of major awards nominations along the way. What’s more, the genre of late has taken a...
Unexplainable ‘Serenity’ is a best-worst movie scenario, a beyond-trashy neo-noir concept thriller featuring award-winning performers going haywire as they labor to make sense of a psycho babble script and utterly…
‘The Kid Who Would Be King’ is a good-natured but ho-hum reimagining of the Legend of King Arthur, supplanting Good Life Lessons in lieu of innovative storytelling. Only kids and…
The long-in-the-tooth Unbreakable trilogy ends on a broken note with Glass, a pretty-much-awful comic book movie that conjoins lofty aspirations to nonsensical execution. An early contender for one of the…
With my Top Ten Best Films of 2018 officially done and out of the way, it’s time to highlight a few other films that flew under the radar in 2018. This time around, I wanted to highlight movies that, for some reason or another, did not connect with audiences, that were shuffled off to the...
It’s that time of year again. The time to whittle down the 147 (as of writing) movies in 2018 I’ve seen into a somewhat arbitrary and totally non-definitive Top Ten list. Each and every confounded year, us critics fold ourselves into pretzels to construct these things and year in and year out, usually end up...
“Mary Queen of Scots” boasts a tremendous performance from Saoirse Ronan and laudable costume, hair, and makeup but the regal drama comes up short connecting all the dots, failing to…
‘Ben is Back’ takes a different approach to an emotionally turbulent story of addiction and deception, figuring a suspense-driven framework that keeps the audience engaged and involved even as the…
Alfonso Cuarón’s return behind the camera marks his most personal chapter yet in this subtle masterclass of filmmaking. 'Roma' is a textured, richly-detailed dream; a sympathetic memory of maternal grace…