SUNDANCE 2020: Giggly Horror-Comedy ‘SCARE ME’ Finds New Ways to Tell Old Stories
Sundance 2020 review of 'Scare Me' written, directed by, and starring Josh Ruben.
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FESTIVAL
SUNDANCE 2020: ‘COME AWAY’ Scrambles Its Fantasy Fiction, Fails to Appeal to Both Adults and Kids
Sundance 2020 review of 'Come Away' from director Brenda Chapman and starring David Oyelowo and Angelina Jolie.
FESTIVAL
SUNDANCE 2020: Well-Intentioned Slam Poetry Misfire ‘SUMMERTIME’ Has Zero Commercial Appeal
Sundance 2020 review of 'Summertime' from director Carlos López Estrada.
REVIEW
‘THE GENTLEMEN’ Review
THE VERDICT: I absolutely loved The Gentlemen. It’s hip and hilarious. Punchy and penetrating. It can be a mean film but it means well. Its central goal is to keep…
REVIEW
Trippy ‘COLOR OUT OF SPACE’ Makes Technicolor The Bad Guy
Just as weird and trippy as you would expect from a Lovecraftian movie about a malevolent color, ‘Color Out of Space’ uses familiar genre staples and the always-game and always-cray…
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‘UNDERWATER’ is Peak Incoherent January Hollywood Flotsam
Perfect for fans who love both bad sci-fi rip-offs and TJ Miller comedy, Underwater is often a spectacularly incoherent mess you can’t help but snicker at. 20,000 leagues below the…
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‘STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER’ Blindly Resurrects the Past To Finish The Saga
The Star Wars series as we know it comes to a close in a clunky and almost-kinda-maybe satisfying fashion, but not without its shortcomings. The force may not be strongest…
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FYC Capsule Review: ‘JUST MERCY’
A punched-up Lifetime movie with a laudable cast, Destin Daniel Cretton’s Just Mercy is a courtroom procedural where the message burns brighter than the filmmaking. A predictable affair with limited…
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Stunningly Mounted ‘1917’ A Towering Technical Achievement
‘1917’ takes an intimate humanist approach to war epics to often staggering results, the proven pairing of Sam Mendes and cinematography Roger Deakins impress top technicians working at the top…
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FYC Capsule Review: ‘BOMBSHELL’
Like Adam McKay before him, Jay Roach has shifted from the world of comedy to that of the didactic and politically-tinted American drama and with the effective and affecting Bombshell, his…