Brazen is slickly made, but it’s otherwise firmly rooted in ’80s Lifetime thriller territory. As a title, Brazen sounds a little old-fashioned, a promise of titillation…
Woodlands Dark is exceedingly thoughtful and never less than riveting despite its length, a film destined to become an important work of criticism. In 2012,…
Return to Hogwarts is the latest Harry Potter product to trade in empty nostalgia for sole the purpose of propping up the money-making franchise. As…
The Lost Daughter doesn’t quite manage its own distinct cinematic voice, but still proves Gyllenhaal to be a director worth keeping up with going forward. While…
The Tragedy of Macbeth is masterful in its fusing of the artificial and elemental, a bit of Shakespearean subterfuge that justifies this umpteenth take on the eponymous…
Swan Song is a sleek, appealingly low-key sci-fi effort that angles more for emotional wallop than futurist noodling. Within the history of cinema, the subject of…
Death Valley is an underwhelming but mostly inoffensive bit of lightweight genre work, delivering a few moments and overcoming obvious budget limitations. As has been periodically mentioned…
The Tender Bar is a bland, clueless film that finds Clooney the director at this most narcotized. While his career in front of the camera has…
Mother/Android isn’t anything more than another generic sci-fi copycat built from the spare parts of better flicks. Even 40-odd years on, Ridley Scott’s dual sci-fi touchstones…
The Hand of God is a softer but no more subdued effort from Sorrentino, still rife with flourish but with a more personal core than ever…
Anyone showing up to The Housewives of the North Pole for some bad behavior shenanigans is going to be sorely disappointed. The Housewives of the North Pole,…
Being the Ricardos would have benefitted from more fully committing to one of its many directions, but it remains a slick, emotionally dynamic film and further…
Don’t Look Up is Adam McKay’s latest po-faced, celebrity-stuffed foray into unfunny finger-wagging and condescension. There’s a curious combativeness to the recent works of Adam McKay,…
The Flight Before Christmas is another inventive, droll effort from the Aardman team, imbuing their familiar stylings with a little misty-eyed holiday cheer. One might be…
The latest entry into the “quarantine art” canon, Project Space 13 is just another empty film with nothing substantive to say about our present moment.…
Single All the Way is as delightful and infectious as Hallmark-styled holiday films should be, and marks Netflix’s first such success in his arena. Netflix’s new…
As far as holiday traditions go, advent calendar are pretty lame; The Advent Calendar is lamer. Break out your horror premise Bingo cards, because if you marked…
Penny Lane’s Listening to Kenny G is a work of discursive extrapolation, a probing work that finds in the artist’s divisiveness some interesting threads worth pulling. Saxophonist…
The Summit of the Gods proves that the new subgenre of mountaineering movies can successfully and beautifully extend to the world of animation. The rapidly…
Bruised is a dumb, derivative riff on Rocky, yet another work of deglamorization that fails to scrape beyond its grimy surface. It seems only appropriate that a…