Inert ‘THE SOCIAL RECKONING’ Misses Fincher Badly
Aaron Sorkin fails to inject 'The Social Reckoning' with anything resembling craftsmanship in this preachy, if righteously angry, followup to the brilliant David Fincher film. It tries to stand on…
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Aaron Sorkin fails to inject 'The Social Reckoning' with anything resembling craftsmanship in this preachy, if righteously angry, followup to the brilliant David Fincher film. It tries to stand on…

Iñárritu's dark climate satire admittedly takes big swings, offering a new thespian mode for superstar Tom Cruise, but with a dearth of insightful parables and actual laugh lines, its lengthy…

A handsomely mounted survival picture about a man and his combat canine companion beating the odds in the Alaskan wilderness, Heart of the Beast doesn't reinvent the survival thriller so…

'Primetime' transports us back to the early aughts, when Chris Hansen and the To Catch a Predator crew dominated the airwaves. Lance Oppenheim's film digs into the nasty business behind…

Zach Cregger hasn't necessarily one-upped himself with 'Resident Evil' so much as shifted his focus to create a well-crafted, goopy horror-comedy that perfectly captures the inimitable feeling of playing a…

How To with John Wilson devotees will appreciate that The History of Concrete is little more than a supersized episode of his distinctive documentary style. The unconverted, however, will likely…

An absolutely ripping sci-fi actioner that outclasses Hollywood by nearly every measure, ‘Hope’ is 156 minutes of sustained escalation that just keeps getting wilder and wilder and then…ends abruptly. It…

A pulpy, bloody grindhouse throwback to when movies existed to make you feel something for 90 minutes and then let you get on with your life, Onslaught is a nasty…

A concept gag about the inherent creepiness of children’s TV that translates surprisingly well to feature-film format, Buddy warps the familiar cheeriness of big, colorful foam mascots into something genuinely…

Macon Blair’s 'Idiots' is a shaggy road-trip comedy about two shitheads driving another shithead to rehab. The performances, mainly Dave Franco’s, drive the piece toward comedic highs, but it feels…