In-depth film reviews, rated A through F, from someone who definitely thinks he knows more about movies than you.
Nate Parker's 'The Birth of a Nation' is a stormily crafted character piece with faint structural limitations. Writing, directing, producing and starring as preacher-turned-revolutionary Nat Turner, Parker lights an artful…
Admirably unfocused and nearly three hours long, 'American Honey' is a behemoth of modern American cinema that dares to tell a coming-of-age drama in untraditional fashion. That it feels cut…
Robust visual effects - including an explosion count that would make Michael Bay cream himself - and a pants-shitting soundscape pair with an intelligent, emotionally honest and sobering dramatic account…
Frat bros and Jonas bros populate Andrew Neel's taxing melodrama Goat, an impregnable profile of the imposing weight of masculinity and the mental bill of fraternal hazing.
'Sully' makes a great platform for Tom Hanks' unwavering skill as a leading man while offering seat-gripping set pieces and a somewhat emotional hero’s story you’ll be glad to cheer…
Greg Kwedar’s debut film ‘Transpecos’ is a potent border fiction that matches high tension thrills with significant characters, played to perfection by Johnny Simmons, Clifton Collins Jr. and Gabriel Luna.…
A moody emulsion of chest-aching grief and sour recompense, 'The Light Between Oceans' is stick-to-your-ribs melodrama that’s powerfully acted and handsomely photographed. Through and through a tearful romance, this is…
'Morris From America' is a light-hearted, semi-charmed hip-hop coming-of-age story that sees Craig Robinson and Markees Christmas play a father and son adjusting to living in a small Germany village…
There’s something very charming about peeling back the curtain of the Michelle-Barack romance and being privy to their quaint off-the-record moments that makes 'Southside With You' so watchable. That there…
‘Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World’ is classic, if not top-tier, Herzog. Poignant, analytical, wide-spanning and cutting; the kind of documentary that’ll leave you thinking long, long after…