Den of Thieves, 2018’s Dad Movie par excellence, came out of nowhere to capture the imaginations of brows high, low, and middle with equal…
Ah, Mel Gibson. Mad Mel. The man who went from one of the biggest movie stars in the world to a relative pariah due…
Ever since the disaster that was Green Lantern, one of action cinema’s surest old hands and biggest directors of the ’90s has been toiling…
The key word in the title of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther is “sorrows,” translated from the German Leiden, which…
As connoisseurs of DTV action cinema well know, even the most promising film is likely to wind up being about 15 minutes of good…
“What is time except to curve past and present around us?” Cesar Catiina (Adam Driver) asks the January 6-coded throng demanding his Megalopolis be…
Director Alexandre Aja’s latest film, Never Let Go, occupies a deliberately liminal space. Its threadbare plot suggests a post-apocalyptic near future, but its central…
Don’t look now, but there’s a new action comedy about a hitman! No one should be surprised, as it one of them seems to…
All the markers of a classic Coen Brothers’ crime comedy are there in Potsy Ponciroli’s Greedy People — the third film released this year…
Playing like a perverse continuation of the final scene of Tár, the new video game-to-feature-film adaptation Borderlands finds Cate Blanchett slumming it as a neon-redheaded,…
2024 has so far proven to be a great year for action cinema: whatever its flaws, The Fall Guy is a paean to stuntmen…
From VR to AI and NFT, from Metaverse to cutting-edge computer games and interface technologies, it’s quite clear that both our existential and psychological…
The story of The Strangers (2008) is simple: a couple (or family, in the case of 2018’s The Strangers: Prey at Night) will be…
Moritz Mohr’s new frenetic action-comedy Boy Kills World feels critic-proof inasmuch as anything one might single out as a negative could very well be…
In keeping with his reputation for being a filmmaker whose work is as celebrated as it is reviled, Danish wunderkind and perennial enfant terrible…
Guy Ritchie has always been a bit of an aggressive but empty stylist. Right out of the gate with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking…
Although its title might suggest otherwise, the breakfast food most prominently employed as a metaphor in Scrambled, Leah McKendrick’s directorial debut, is not eggs,…
Where have all the taboo romances gone? Admittedly, the trailer for Jade Halley Bartlett’s Miller’s Girl didn’t inspire much hope for their return, particularly…