Out in Theaters: ‘MIDNIGHT SPECIAL’
Jeff Nichols’ ‘Midnight Special’ feels like some recently discovered 80's B-movie. Purring with metaphysical musings and its own cryptic internal mythology, the sci-fi chase movie asks more questions than it…
In-depth film reviews of current theatrical releases, rated A through F, from someone who definitely thinks he knows more about movies than you.

Jeff Nichols’ ‘Midnight Special’ feels like some recently discovered 80's B-movie. Purring with metaphysical musings and its own cryptic internal mythology, the sci-fi chase movie asks more questions than it…

Backed by a spine-tingling score, 'Krisha' is a powerful journey through the dingy bowels of addiction and family secrets. Krisha Fairchild is masterful in a breakout role for the ages…

The gangbang of superhero team-ups, Zack Synder's 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice' is 155 minutes of darkness and smashing. While Batfleck proves the Caped Crusader has reason to exist…

Led by soaring performances from Gyllenhaal and Watts and an emotionally exploratory script from Bryan Sipe, 'Demolition' is an oddball destructo-drama that measures the invoice of grief against the constructs…

Bizarre by traditional sequel standards, '10 Cloverfield Lane' is nonetheless an immaculate work of genre craftsmanship, a bustling coup de grace of wit, intensity and phenomenal performances with John Goodman…

A pretentious visual collage that panders to art-house patrons as much as it rejects traditional constructs of entertainment, 'Knight of Cups' is in desperate need of a plot and consequently…

From a birds eye view, there’s not a ton of novelty to 'Eddie the Eagle'’s underdog sports narrative but refreshing individual moments and outlandish characters make it an experience worth…

'Triple 9' honors the esteemed tradition of American crime films, tipping its hat hither and thither to the greats that preceded it, creating a circus of variably intriguing characters to…

When the family snaps under the pressure of internal and external presses, it’s anyone’s game and you’ll want to behold the result. The fact that The Witch is up for…

Fans of Zoolander, beware. 'Zoolander 2' is so vomitously dumb, so affrontively underwritten and so actively bad that it just might make your affection for the original evaporate. Ben Stiller…