The well-intentioned On the Come Up wants to challenge audiences, but can’t overcome a wholly inauthentic and sanitized presentation of its material. After Rosie Thomas shot…
2022’s Goodnight Mommy fails to find and replicate the nuance of the original, delivering only shallow ugliness in its stead. Actress Naomi Watts is…
Do Revenge is over-the-top but toothless, sorely lacking any genuine bite and trading in paper-thin social commentary. Director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Someone Great) would…
Drifting Home can be plagued by its narrative convention and visual monotony, but it’s also a charming portrait of emerging adolescence that will please plenty…
The Cathedral is D’Ambrose’s portrait of the artist as a young man, a bracingly vigorous work and a precise survey of emotional turmoil. After a…
I Came By is all superficial signaling, failing to build any actual substance, subtlety, or genre thrills into weightless construction. Babak Anvari is less…
Who Invited Them visits well-worn territory, but its novel navigation of these familiar trappings makes for an effectively discomfiting viewing experience. The Covid pandemic…
Outside Noise is an effortlessly accomplished work, unforced and moving toward an emotional spectrum out of the reach of most filmmakers. Ted Fendt’s body…
Untrapped flirts with greatness in its initial stretch, but soon frustratingly settles into lionization and depthless narrative. There’s a solid half-hour stretch where Untrapped briefly…
Loving Adults is visually impressive and sporadically interesting, but sacrifices the necessary character depth for this type of film at the altar of melodramatic plot…
Samaritan is a shallow, abysmally paced actioner that fails to deliver any impressive action. A drab, joyless affair, the new Sylvester Stallone vehicle Samaritan…
Me Time is an unfunny, haphazard, and chemistry-poor waste of everyone’s time. The Kevin Hart-Netflix train rolls on with Me Time, a new buddy comedy…
This Magnificent Cake! could stand be fleshed out a bit and its dual metaphors can feel somewhat redundant, but there’s no denying the film’s astounding…
It’s often difficult to understand Babysitter’s aims, and viewers deserve more than something this over-caffeinated and underwritten. Director Monia Chokri’s dark comedy Babysitter establishes a…
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…
Orphan: First Kill lacks the pulpy playfulness and satirical intent of the original, entirely misunderstanding its appeal and rendering this sequel an underwhelming curiosity at…
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…
This latest Ninja Turtles product is a narratively lazy and formally chaotic bit of empty IP. As long as one doesn’t stubbornly insist on…