This first Fear Street entry suggests possible upward momentum for the trilogy, but disappoints as a slasher in its own right. There’s promise to Fear…
Good on Paper wittily upsets rom-com conventions, but doesn’t produce much substance beyond this initial fake-out. Following a string of stand-up specials and a sketch…
The Tomorrow War is pure sci-fi cribbing, a regurgitated and ungainly monstrosity without a single novel idea. What do you say about a movie like The…
America: The Motion Picture is a dopey, dated take-down of American exceptionalism that occasionally hits its target. America: The Motion Picture, the debut feature from Frisky…
Dynasty Warriors buries its littered, low-key strengths under a deluge of CGI nonsense. What does it mean to adapt the video game series Dynasty Warriors,…
Questlove’s debut film as a director is a success, defined as much by its outrage as its joy. Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, drummer of the legendary…
Prime Time is all the more terrifying for its refusal to pathologize its lead in any easy way. Set on the eve of the millennium,…
The Ice Road doesn’t trust the straightforward formula of its actioner origins, needlessly complicating things to its detriment. It’s 2021 and the Liam Neeson Action…
Vicious Fun fails as both horror cinema and horror deconstruction. Wes Craven’s Scream has been justly lauded as an epochal moment in horror cinema, a…
Fathom sidesteps plenty of nature documentary pratfalls, but fails to develop a distinctive voice of its own. In the wake of Planet Earth’s zeitgeist arrival…
An Unquiet Grave fails to deliver even scares, let alone substantive plot or character. Horror is a genre that tends to thrive on economy; it…
False Positive plays like a modern riff on Rosemary’s Baby, but executes its updated vision perfunctorily and mostly dully. Even though it’s sort of unfair to stack…
Sweat swims in the grey areas of internet intimacy to thoughtful, sometimes unsettling results. For as long as we’ve held any conception of celebrity, it’s…
Superdeep is only horrific in how much deadening exposition it forces viewers to endure. The idea that the deepest hole ever drilled into the Earth,…
Fatherhood isn’t going to be remembered as a comedy classic, or much at all, but given its rocky road to release, it could have been much…
The Amusement Park is a remarkable work and profound reminder of Romero’s facility with pointed critique. Long recognized as one of the absolute masters of…
Awake is more likely to put viewers to sleep than scratch any genre film itch. In Awake, Netflix’s latest high-concept thriller, Gina Rodriguez stars as Jill,…
If you love your action flicks stuffed full of nonsense exposition and explanation, Infinite is the film for you. You know you’re in trouble when…
In a stronger film, Tragic Jungle’s metaphor and opacity would have a more elaborate, complex mythos to match. Yulene Olaizola’s elemental fifth feature, Tragic Jungle, is…
Caveat teases potential and boasts an impressive setup, but ultimately loses its thread after this initial stretch. One of the challenges of the modern horror…