The magic has been force-drained from the Star Wars universe with 'The Mandalorian and Grogu', a dreadful non-starter that fails in almost every capacity to actually pass as a "movie".…
When orphaned Māori woman Mary (Ariāna Osborne) travels to Victorian England in the 1800s to uncover the identities of the parents she never knew, she instead unearths heinous secrets with far-reaching implications for her family tree. Mārama, the New Zealand gothic horror film from director Taratoa Stappard, folds cultural appropriation and colonial violence into a...
‘Obsession’ feels like a dark-magic witch’s brew of Together, Fede Álvarez’s 2013 Evil Dead, and Big: a horrifying black comedy that takes big swings and somehow pulls them off, masterfully…
'Is God Is' is a flawed but compelling debut, anchored by two magnetic lead performances and Harris's sharp ear for dialogue. The translation from stage to screen doesn't always land,…
The Ascent, directed by Francis Cronin, Edward Drake, and Scott Veltri, is a climbing documentary–true crime hybrid following bilateral amputee Mandy Horvath’s attempt to quite literally crawl up Mt. Kilimanjaro using only her hands and a whole lot of gumption. It’s a captivating stranger-than-fiction account that resists easy categorization, the film ably exploring Mandy’s difficult...
The Friend’s House is Here, written, directed, and produced by Hossein Keshavarz and Maryam Ataei, is a slice-of-life Iranian drama following two close friends navigating Tehran’s underground art world, where they risk staging performances featuring women without hijabs or dancing ever-so-slightly provocatively on social media, in defiance of state censorship. The film is an intimate,...
Even the presence of James Cameron behind the camera and Billie Eilish belting her heart out cannot turn this filmed arena tour experience into anything more than blatant fan service…
'Freaky Friday' by way of 'Strange World', Nathan Greno’s 'Swapped' is at its best when none of its characters are talking. Visually imaginative but emotionally underpowered, it’s a mostly inoffensive,…
David Frankel returns to high fashion glitterati with Streep, Hathaway, Blunt, and Tucci in tow for 'The Devil Wears Prada 2', a sequel that trades the original's sharp class anxiety…
Damian McCarthy returns to Irish folk horror for Hokum, recruiting Adam Scott for his first proper venture into the genre to tell a somewhat predictable little witches-and-ghosts tale that's rich…