Four decades later and the influence of Die Hard remains unimpeachable, so much so that its stature in action cinema serves as a functional shorthand…
In the near-decade since it came out, The Accountant has become a Dad Movie classic, beloved (some might say inexplicably) by anyone looking for something…
Watching the opening credits of Mimi Cave’s Holland, one would not be entirely remiss to recall the barren sound stage of Lars von Trier’s Dogville.…
David Ayer’s movies have often straddled the line between edgelord wannabe grit and cartoonish macho fantasy — although his best films, like WWII tank adventure…
The title appears like a misnomer. At a tight 67 minutes, and with such glorious irreverence embedded within its form, Broken Rage doesn’t even need…
It’s been a couple of years now, but it’s still disconcerting to see the classic MGM logo in front of Amazon streaming movies. It’s flagrant…
Adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel of the same name, RaMell Ross’ Nickel Boys grapples with a level of tragedy and systemic abuse…
At first glance, it wouldn’t be unfair to view My Old Ass, the new feature from Canadian actress-turned-director Megan Park, as a bit of a…
Both a post-#MeToo reckoning and a speculative account of the sort of behavior that could have transpired on billionaire Jeffrey Epstien’s island, Blink Twice —…
As America heads toward an increasingly tumultuous and unpredictable future, it comes as no surprise that there are filmmakers who are champing at the bit…
Rowdy Herrington’s 1989 opus Road House is, in the unironic view of this writer, a bona fide classic and one of the best American films…
Taken almost exclusively from the personal illustrated diaries of Frida Kahlo, Carla Gutierrez’s Frida brings the renowned artist’s painting to often breathtaking life through animation…
Jennifer Lopez, in recent years, has made a comeback from her early career to new levels of critical and commercial success. Lopez dominated Netflix streaming…
It’s widely understood that most action movies have a somewhat reactionary bent to them — shoot first and ask questions later is both the guiding…
Scanning the logline alone of Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction is enough to engender a double-take, although less for its audaciousness and more out of an…