In-depth film reviews of current theatrical releases, rated A through F, from someone who definitely thinks he knows more about movies than you.
Adult-oriented 'Logan' mixes some rather heavy thematic elements in with its gory violence and hard language to create a uniquely introspective, genuinely mature but welcomely visceral superhero experience. Extremely dark…
Like a tower defense game brought to the big screen, the grating 'Great Wall' is a patience-testing embarrassment for all involved. With razor-thin characters, shamelessly cliched plotting and some dreadful…
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…