Like any anthology, the female-directed horror short collection ‘XX’ embodies the problems native to the anthology format - shallow character development, thinly sketched narrative arcs, with short-term investment wielding sparse…
'John Wick: Chapter 2' is everything fans of the first film wanted and little else. There's more blood, more headshots, more campy Keanu Reeves stalking and killing his prey but…
Constructed to wallop the audience with rambunctious eye candy and faux-edgy licks of humor, 'The Lego Batman' is a step down from its inspired predecessor. Delivering infrequent - but often…
Gore Verbinski's 'A Cure for Wellness' is a deliciously nasty serving of horror-thriller whose oddities amplify as it stretches on. Long-winded but absorbing, it plays like a symphonic homage to…
Let's save the hemming and hawing, The Space Between Us is terrible. No need to add much else to the sentiment, it is a bad film that you will have…
John Michael McDonagh’s brassy 'War on Everyone’ is a nonstop assault on social conscience; a normatively apathetic riot, fastened by Alexander Skarsgård and Michael Peña’s piss-in-the-wind ennui, that is as…
A vapid, is-it-or-isn’t-it-self-aware odyssey into the most epically moronic quadrants of entertainment, 'xXx: Return of Xander Cage' is exactly the kind of simpleminded adrenaline cinema it promises to be. Deeply…
In addition to being a platform for James McAvoy to display his considerable range in truly zany fashion, 'Split' represents the once fallen M. Night Shyamalan solidifying his place as…
20th Century Women is a character-driven comedic drama that puts the “m-e-n” in feminism. Led by a great trio in Annette Being, Greta Gerwig and Elle Fanning, Mikes Mills’ third…
My god does putting this thing together every year take a little bit of my soul. The product of countless hours of hunting, refining, ordering, researching, writing all so you can look at the pretty pictures as your zooming from one title to the next. A labor of love this must be. This year, more...