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The Power doesn’t hold a lot of mystery but thrives by situating its political and cultural critiques as blunt, horrific text. There’s something sinister lurking in the dark in writer/director Corinna Faith’s new period horror film The Power. Set in January 1974, amongst a…

Mamade Claude isn’t much more than shallow period dress-up and empty provocation. Set, for the most part, in the final tumultuous years of the Swinging Sixties, Sylvie Verheyde’s Madame Claude follows the life and career of one of the most infamous French icons of…

Concrete Cowboy features a pair of solid performances and a sleek visual design, but suffers under the weight of its paint-by-numbers approach to narrative. Set in the real-life world of Philadelphia’s Black cowboys, Ricky Staub’s Concrete Cowboy tells the story of Cole (Caleb McLaughlin),…

WeWork is somewhat limited in focus and doesn’t always plumb deeply, but remains an intermittently fascinating portrait of a conman and his grift. When applying for jobs in the 21st century, what do you look for? There are the obvious things — a good…

Bad Trip fulfills its minimum obligation to produce a baseline number of laughs, and does very little else. Bad Trip is yet another casualty of COVID-19’s continuing battle with theatrical releases. Originally set to debut in April of 2020, the film was ultimately picked…

Tina might not be as encompassing as some viewers might like, but the result is a moving, celebratory tribute doc all the same. One of the many illuminating stories told in Tina, Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin’s softly conventional but intensely moving docu-portrait of rock…

Violation is a stunning debut feature that matches its its thorny discourse with impeccable technical craft. Writer-director duo Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli have been making provocative short films together since 2017, and with Violation, they’ve finally got a feature-length runtime to expand on their…

For better or worse, Yes Day is essentially what you expect it to be: a sweet, sitcom-styled family comedy.  The new Netflix family comedy Yes Day inspires a lot of questions. How did Miguel Arteta, director of such relatively edgy indie fare as Star…

Sentinelle isn’t Leclercq’s best work, but it’s a gritty, nuts-and-bolts actioner in its own right. Netflix has a tendency to push a few high-profile titles every year (mostly prestige awards-bait like Mank and Hillbilly Elegy) while leaving the rest of its massive offerings to battle it out for…

Moxie boasts a surprisingly lush visual design, but its soft script and weak character development leaves a lot to be desired. Adapted from Jennifer Mathieu’s 2017 novel of the same name, Amy Poehler’s Moxie will likely give rise to a tumult of mixed feelings for many…