As Jane Austen adaptations go, ‘Emma’ is an adequately coiffed and bouncy retelling, though tends to overstay its welcome at times, where the production design elements like the costumery, landscapes,…
Elisabeth Moss is fantastic leading Leigh Whannell’s intelligent and captivating reimagining of ‘The Invisible Man’, a thought-provoking horror-thriller that focuses on the realities of emotional violence and abuse, particularly when…
Matthew Pope’s grimy backcountry thriller has splashes of Saulnier, Mickles, and the Coen Bros but is ripe with its own potential as well, spinning a damning web of deceit and…
All in all, 'Onward' casts a spell but it’s a relatively mild one, one that’s mainly aimed at the viewer’s emotional side and can only take partial advantage of its…
Led by a strikingly gloomy performance from Riley Keough, 'The Lodge' uses the power of psychological warfare and brutal natural elements to spook up a dark cabin fever horror story…
Sundance 2020 review of 'The Nowhere Inn' starring Annie Clark and Carrie Brownstone.
Sundance 2020 review of 'Relic' directed by Natalie Erika James and starring Emily Mortimer.
Sundance 2020 film review of 'Possessor' directed by Brandon Cronenberg and starring Andrea Riseborough and Christopher Abbott.
A remake of the critically-acclaimed Swedish drama Force Majeure, Downhill is kind of exactly like most American remakes of critically-acclaimed foreign dramas: amusing but unnecessary. A blue-square redo of a double-black-diamond story. With the hard-packed dual casting of Will Ferrell (who’s better here than he’s been in years) and Julia Louis-Dreyfus (who also produced), the...
Sundance 2020 movie review of 'Amulet' directed by Romola Garai and starring Alec Secareanu and Carla Juri.