In-depth film reviews, rated A through F, from someone who definitely thinks he knows more about movies than you.
Handsomely shot and admirably acted, Paweł Pawlikowski’s ‘Fatherland’ is a black-and-white museum piece about as thrilling as a Wikipedia page. Sandra Hüller is blameless, but even at a merciful 82…
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…
'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma' from writer-director Jane Schoenbrun is a deeply meta horror curio whose commentary on the genre and the place of queerness within it eventually overwhelms…
Although Milly Alcock remains inspired casting as Kara Zor-El, 'Supergirl' leans too heavily on worn-down sci-fi and superhero tropes to fully capitalize on its strongest asset. Director Craig Gillespie and…
Steven Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' only occasionally recaptures the sense of awe that made him one of science fiction's defining filmmakers, but those moments are buried beneath a baffling screenplay that…
'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…
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…
John Patton Ford's 'How to Make a Killing' is a stylish, propulsive crime caper about a man murdering his way toward a faster inheritance, but its inability to cut beneath the…
Overlong, repetitive, and dull, 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' commits the cardinal sin of being both excessive and unnecessary, adding little to the Pandora saga and failing to justify a return…