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 very…
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 completely…
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 best.…
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 a…
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 a…
They/Them offers a surprisingly empathetic and graceful treatment of its LGBTQ-focused material, but its horror bona fides are more lacking. Blumhouse’s new slasher flick They/Them is…
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 exactly…
What Josiah Saw exhibits Grashaw’s considerable formal chops, but there’s an inherent silliness pestering its core and its ending undermines some of its power. The past…
Thirteen Lives delivers an immersive, impressively reconstructed telling the famous Thai cave rescue, but the film sags a bit when it comes to interrogating the seemingly…
With Not Okay, Shephard succeeds at crafting an unlikable female protagonist that feels true to our world and a film unafraid to reflect that world…
We Met in Virtual Reality is a formally fascinating and emotionally rich documentary that proves far more humanist than its tech-centric tagline might suggest. Joe…
Though its thematic threads begin to fray, Moloch remains a tantalizing evocation in primal fear that explores the allure behind myth and symbol. Idolatry has remained a…
The Wheel isn’t always a smooth ride, but it ultimately clicks into place in its affecting final stretch. When contemplating filmmakers who would attempt to…
Anything’s Possible is a well-intentioned film that is unfortunately undone by its shallow lip service and artless execution. Amazon’s new teen romance Anything’s Possible is…
Good Madam is elevated, theme-heavy horror done right, delicately refracting its discursive concerns through the lens of a haunted house tale. The lingering consequences of…
Persuasion tries and fails to hide its thoughtless adaptation instincts and baffling decision-making behind a deluge of modern stylistic flourishes and homages to superior films.…
Even within the teen romance subgenre, Hello, Goodbye stands out as particularly bland, delivering signifiers and signposts in place of genuine substance. Marketing materials for…
Beavis and Butthead Do the Universe offers the type of low-stakes low humor that demands little but gives generously to those willing to engage. Beavis and…
We’s length is felt perhaps a bit too much, but it’s ultimately a visually rich and vigorous film that locates a warm humanity with the…
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…