Let’s say you wanted to define the dramatic stakes in Ben Affleck’s new, based-on-a-true-story movie Air. Start with the premise: it’s 1984, and Nike executive…
A Type A careerist finds her life spinning out of control after the man she’s long harbored feelings for announces his intentions of marrying a…
The death of the mid-budget studio rom-com is a topic that has been commented on and analyzed ad nauseum by countless entertainment websites and social…
Premiering at the 2022 edition of the Cannes Film Festival and dropping into U.S. theaters in the autumn, Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO was a film that…
Something from Tiffany’s isn’t much more substantive than your average holiday rom-com, but it’s leads are so likeable and its approach so breezy that it…
Your Christmas or Mine? is a totally misguided holiday film with no emotional stakes or rooting interests to be found. Yuletide romance Your Christmas or Mine?…
Nanny promisingly begins as an unsettling study in neoliberal microaggressions but sadly slides into standard-gauge horror tomfoolery in its second half. Nikyatu Jusu’s Nanny is the kind…
My Policeman is a beige, two-hour yawn that fails to live up to superior works occupying the same thematic space. Harry Styles kept finding himself in…
Run Sweetheart Run is as inconsistent, condescending, and unsubtle as films come. Audiences should run far away indeed. There are no shortage of think pieces out…
My Best Friend’s Exorcism is little more than empty pandering that relies on its ’80s texture and horror knockoff clichés to distract from its empty core.…
Catherine Called Birdy features a pleasant, tuned-in script from Dunham, but the whole project is undermined by an unfortunate lack of aesthetic character. Her short…
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 no…
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 flirts…
Samaritan is a shallow, abysmally paced actioner that fails to deliver any impressive action. A drab, joyless affair, the new Sylvester Stallone vehicle Samaritan finds…
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…
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…
Emergency understands the tragedy of individuals forced to feel systematically dehumanized, but stumbles when it comes to logic, comedy, and tension. The college party movie, usually…
All the Old Knives is a DOA old-school espionage thriller that only succeeds in proving how wasted Chris Pine is. Sporting quite possibly one of the…
Master is impressively textured formally and presents is nuanced in its discursive considerations, but fails to muster many scares as a horror film. Amongst the cohort…
Potato Dreams of America is an uneven, arrhythmic effort that undermines its early promise with a blunted second half. If Marvel’s Wandavision has left you…
I Want You Back is a pleasantly askew rom-com, acidic on the edges and reveling in the distinct comedic style of its leads. There was a…