The Greatest Beer Run is a toothless, dad-movie escapade that spares too little thought for the tragedy that surrounds its lighthearted story, rendering its attempts…
My Best Friend’s Exorcism is little more than empty pandering that relies on its ’80s texture and horror knockoff clichés to distract from its empty…
Pearl doesn’t indulge the same genre thrills as X, but it does deliver an idiosyncratic, bloody little chamber piece that succeeds in a different but undeniable…
Confess, Fletch isn’t attempting much, but it lands as an amiable bit of diet-Soderbergh primed for a low-key weekend binge. We all complain about what…
Nowadays we’re saddled with tepid action comedy stuff like The Lost City or Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard’s alleged chemistry in the Jurassics…
Glorious is stylish and occasionally pretty funny, but its lightweight genre pleasures are entirely undermined by a bafflingly stupid final twist. It’s hard to…
Day Shift tackles familiar territory with refreshing style, breeziness, and memorably enjoyable characters, as well as delivering some of the year’s best action. Despite being…
Bullet Train is an wholesale derailment, an inane, ’90s-styled crime caper built on comedy that isn’t funny and action that’s plagued by godawful execution.…
Prey doesn’t always hit high action points, but remains rousing late-summer entertainment largely on the strength of its intelligent and formally impressive setting switch-up. Almost…
Vengeance suggests plenty of potential in its genre-mixing premise, but frustratingly shakes out exactly as you’d expect at every turn. It feels like the…
Mickey Reece’s Country Gold also stars the director as country music artist Troyal Brux (clearly modeled, at least visually, on Garth Brooks, whom Reece…
Hypochondriac is but the latest elevated horror project to arrive, spinning its wheels for 90 minutes without anything new to say. Fans of elevated…
The Gray Man is an unforgivably bland and phoned-in actioner defined by digital smearing and toothless character work. It’s a little disingenuous to describe a…
Nope is undeniably ambitious and cribs from the best, but its determined obliqueness and prioritizing of subtext over genre thrills make for a rather sluggish…
Thor: Love and Thunder is a film that has TV series written all over it, and is but the latest MCU entry to land…
Spiderhead is pure algorithm “art,” an empty bad-tech tale that delivers nothing new or exciting. You’d be forgiven for getting excited for a mid-budget, talent-driven,…
Jurassic World Dominion is at least better than the franchise’s last entry, but its reliance on legacy callbacks and a miscalculated primary plot thread leaves…
White Elephant might satiate devoted JVJ fans but will feel warmed-over for other DTV action heads. Even the best filmmakers have a few stumbles in…