The Passenger boasts a duo of capable directors behind the camera, but little beyond the impressive visuals lands with any force. Those looking for a…
The Forgiven doesn’t have any substance or style to elevate its tired tale of how rich people suck. “Rich people behaving badly” has become such an…
The Man from Toronto is as familiar as assassin-centric action-comedies come, but nevertheless proves a refreshing blast of mid-summer fun on the strength of its affable…
The track record of measured, believable — let alone sympathetic — portrayals of mental illness on the big screen is spotty at best, oftentimes veering…
No one is going to mistake Lightyear for a return to form for Pixar, but its littered small pleasures make for an inoffensive animated space yarn.…
Nude Tuesday, it must be said, gets bonus points for creativity. In telling the tale of a long-married couple who attempt to spice up their…
Cha Cha Real Smooth aims to hit viewers squarely in the feels, and even if will be too nicecore for some, Raiff’s brand of earnestness succeeds…
Father of the Bride ticks off the requisite boxes for a film of its ilk, and with some savvy, but its essential shallowness if troubled by…
Brian and Charles is so lightweight as to risk blowing over at any moment, but is also a wholly endearing affair that will charm more viewers…
The Righteous is a compelling forgery, often beautiful to look at but not nearly as profound as it believes itself to be. The Righteous, the debut…
The Phantom of the Open doesn’t deviate much from the underdog sports movie template, but has just enough depth and charm to slightly elevate it…
Writer-director Emmanuelle Nicot’s Love According to Dalva opens with the titular character (Zelda Samson) being violently separated from her father in their own home at…
The Bob’s Burger’s Movie is fitfully amusing but wholly unnecessary, its translation to a long form and the big screen proving distinctly underwhelming. Fox Television’s long-running…
March, 2020. In the seaside city of Catania, Italy, a migrant camp prepares for a visit from French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela…
Good Mourning isn’t the cult stoner comedy it angles to be, but there’s a welcome amiability that permeates the entire film, elevating this MGK vanity…
Cordelia engages as an exercise in tension for a while, but is utterly undone by a slogging climax that opts for conceptual indulgence and dank metaphor.…
Mascarpone vacillates between insight and one-dimensionality, but its luscious aesthetic character keeps its lightly recommendable. Gay Italian drama Mascarpone certainly knows how to appease its target…
The latest film to fail to properly utilize the cornfield’s unique horror setting, Escape the Field isn’t the least bit scary, clever, or compelling. Speaking…
The Found Footage Phenomenon is a bland, talking head-heavy dud that feels like an incomplete Wikipedia article on its subject matter. If anything, new documentary…
Senior Year is an inconsistent, scattershot vanity project for Rebel Wilson, tanking every potentially interesting angle in favor of lame mugging. Austin Powers meets Never…