Out in Theaters: INSIDE OUT
A last act reunion once again turned my face soggy, leaving me all the more inclined to stick through the (increasingly hysterical) mid-credits stinger that dives into the inner-workings of…
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Out in Theaters: DOPE
As his excessively vintage look indicates, Malcolm isn’t an archetype. It’s his being an outsider that finally allows him to synthesize his influences and solve his problems in some surprisingly…
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Documentary Dossier: THE WOLFPACK
The Angulo brothers are surprisingly articulate, self-aware, creative and empathetic - characteristics that may come as a surprise; by the conclusion of the film, it feels as though we have…
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Out in Theaters: ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL
That being said, Gomez-Rejon's commingling of cutesy and downbeat pensive drama makes for a rich emotional experience and one capable of bedazzling in least expected places. The players are all…
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Out in Theaters: THE FACE OF AN ANGEL
Most don’t realize that Dante’s Hell was more frozen-over than burning hot. It’s appropriate, for if this film were brought to judgment, its feigned premise – that bait-and-switch of the…
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Out in Theaters: SPY
In large part due to smarmy secondary characters the likes of Law, Statham and Bryne, Spy does slip in some low laughs, sometimes even at the hands of McCarthy. And…
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Out in Theaters: INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 3
I would say the bloom is off the rose but that honor went out the window in the second act of the first film. Everything since Shaye walked through the…
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Out in Theaters: JURASSIC WORLD
Deferential to the original, almost to the point of hitting too many of the same notes, Jurassic World definitely follows a formula that hems dangerously close to the 1993 cut.…
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Out in Theaters: ENTOURAGE
The end result has its mildly bemusing moments - especially when in the supremely self-deprecating hands of Kevin Dillon - but is ultimately an entirely unnecessary addition to canon whose…
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Out in Theaters: ALOHA
Unfortunate though it may be, Aloha is brimming with the melodramatic tinder that stokes the flames of many critics' red pens. Case and point, a local critic all but pushed…