Boring, dreary, and populated by unlikable characters, 'Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore' is an absolute chore. There’s no way this will be a hit so at least this will be…
Everyone’s always a suspect in any slasher movie worth its salt and that’s true up until the very last moments in Halina Reijn’s Bodies Bodies Bodies. The film, which stars a slew of established and rising talent in the form of Maria Bakalova, Lee Pace, Amandla Stenberg, Chase Sui Wonders, Peter Davidson, and a scene-stealing...
When out-of-tower Hamish (Cosmo Jarvis) gets in a head-on-collision with Irish teenagers Callum and Evan (Rhys Mannion), only the later survives. Reeling from the fallout, the unscathed Evan and banged up Hamish wind up in a complicated dance, caught somewhere between trauma bonding and flirtation in a film that’s slow to reveal its hand. Their...
Jim Gaffigan stars as astronomer and public television personality Cameron Edwin in Colin West’s science fiction-tinged festival dramedy Linoleum. A bodega-version Bill Nye, Cameron leads the failing daily children’s show ‘Above & Beyond’ which after years of existing in obscurity has been picked up by a major network. The rub? Cameron will be replaced as...
Bullied as a child, Sissy (Aisha Dee) thought she left behind her childhood name. She‘s Cecilia now and she’s a self-help influencer. Popular on social media under the handle “Sincerely Cecilia”, the trendy twenty-something shares glossy selfie videos about mindfulness and self-love, topics she actually knows nearly nothing about. Deep down, she’s a traumatized child;...
‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ is a madcap, prismatic martial arts sci-fi family movie that refracts the entire scope of cinema and reality through the plight of a Chinese-American laundry…
This tame adaptation of the popular Playstation game series manages to strip the charm out of the franchise, due partially to poorly cast leads in Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg,…
Kenneth Branagh's latest ho-hum potboiler benefits from an impressive cast - though he doesn't quite know what to do with them all - while unwinding a murder mystery that lacks…
A chaotic disaster epic marked by an impressive cast, laughable dialogue, and sometimes stellar special effects, 'Moonfall' is typical Roland Emmerich fare but lacking the consistent madness to make the…
'Jackass Forever' is the same stupid buffoonery that it's always been - and it's still just as scatologically funny.