Dexter Fletcher’s Ghosted is a high-concept romantic action comedy with movie stars and a decent budget that, were this 2005, would presumably have the potential…
Narrative video games have been an appealing cash-grab for years now, but the recent phenomenon of The Last of Us has made game adaptations hot…
In the course of that rich history of films about con artists, the appeal has almost always been to watch largely amoral professionals execute their…
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse is quite naked in its ambitions to become the next classic British Christmas special — The…
Emancipation attempts, and mightily fails, to balance a film stodgy enough to play in a high school classroom with Hollywood’s typically rousing approach to historical epic…
Causeway is a sturdy enough film with fine anchoring performances, but it doesn’t otherwise boast much in the way of substance. It’s been some time since…
Raymond and Ray, while patiently contemplative, plays it too safe as a dramedy of life’s joys and sorrows. The story of estranged siblings in search…
The Greatest Beer Run is a toothless, dad-movie escapade that spares too little thought for the tragedy that surrounds its lighthearted story, rendering its attempts at…
Sidney often teeters into hagiography, but the clear affection that strips the film of balance is also what animates it so vividly. Narrated in large part…
In the first three days that doctors and patients were trapped inside Memorial Medical Center after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, the body count was around…
The morning after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans, folks at Memorial Medical Center rejoiced. The sun was shining. The facility still had power…
Cha Cha Real Smooth aims to hit viewers squarely in the feels, and even if will be too nicecore for some, Raiff’s brand of earnestness succeeds…
The Sky is Everywhere’s YA origins generate too many cringey twee moments here, but there’s no denying Decker’s visual power to elevate the material. Her…
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…
Finch is entirely predictable and low stakes, but the duo of nice-guy Hanks and a cute pup musters enough pleasant earnestness to keeps things afloat. Sometime…
The Velvet Underground proves an interesting resting place for a litany of period detritus, but stumbles when foregrounding its titular subjects. Todd Haynes, a noted semiotician,…
CODA’s personal storytelling and intelligent subversion of its middlebrow formulae make for a surprisingly affecting viewing experience. The title of Siân Heder’s sophomore feature is…
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…
The World’s a Little Blurry has plenty for die-hards to like and is welcomingly relaxed, but ultimately remains a pro forma exercise with little to recommend…
Cherry is a cartoonish failure of imagination, technique, and performance. Joe and Anthony Russo, the producer/directors who found themselves at the helm of the biggest studio…