‘Monkey Man’ is a mostly generic action-revenge movie airdropped into the sociopolitical landscape of modern India. Dev Patel’s passion is evident as a performer and filmmaker but his directorial debut…
‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’ at least tries to have a little more fun with this MonsterVerse property than some of its overly serious predecessors but the head-scratchingly numb…
Poorly directed, terribly paced, entirely lacking in character development, painfully unfunny, and - worst of all - wholly soulless, 'Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire', like many reboot sequels before it, reminds us…
Despite a fiery supporting performance from Tilda Swinton, Julio Torres’ first feature film, Problemista, feels like it hasn’t worked out all its kinks yet. Unique and personal but mired by…
In his cringe-tastic treatise on middle school awkwardness Eighth Grade, Bo Burnham captured the universal horror of growing up through the specificity of Elsie Fisher’s Kayla. Her oily identity crisis effortlessly evoked our own transitory 13-year-old state, subjecting us to the lost-but-not-forgotten dread of first crushes, online interactions, and seething parental conflict. With Dìdi, Oscar-nominated...
After the sudden passing of his author wife, a Jewish cantor (Jason Schwartzman) finds himself deep in the throes of a crisis of faith that has his questioning everything from his career to his own worth. When he crosses paths with his childhood music teacher (Carol Kane), herself at a turning point in life, his...
An aspiring actor with an extreme facial deformity undergoes an experimental procedure and ends up missing out on the role of a lifetime. Things only get worse when the life he always dreamed up ends up in the hands of a rival actor, himself facially deformed. Writer-director Aaron Schimberg combines body horror with a Shakespearean-level...
Rose Glass’ Love Lies Bleeding melds a greasy crime drama with a gritty love story, presenting an American saga steeped in steroid-fueled rage, white trash aesthetics, and memorably bad haircuts. Glass leans into B-movie intrigue with an elite level of execution, creating a visually provocative and impressively-performed world of high crimes and low sleaze and...
'The Beekeeper' is so patently stupid that it starts to feel like a spoof of a John Wick movie. The script is as dopey as they come, even if the…
An impressively staged, skillfully performed remix of the original popular girl comedy satire, 2024’s 'Mean Girls' adds a number of infectious musical tracks to make its story relevant again, without…