Operation Mincemeat is precisely the kind of stolid history flick your dad will probably like but which bears little artistry to otherwise meaningfully distinguish…
Marmaduke is one of the most scatological films you’re ever likely to see, and so it’s fitting that it turns out to be an epic…
The Takedown is inoffensive as a buddy cop comedy, but runs into trouble with its reductive neoliberal political invocations. Louis Leterrier’s The Takedown, a…
Like A Rolling Stone excels in conveying a vivid sense of the flesh-and-blood human behind the venerated byline. Ben Fong-Torres, the celebrated music journalist profiled…
Bubble is an altogether gentler anime product for Araki, aiming for the emotional stakes of films like Your Name, but is slight to the point…
The only choice to make regarding Choose or Die is to choose not to watch this lazy, unintelligible bit of horror rehash. New Netflix horror flick…
Metal Lords blunders plenty, but its blend of heavy metal and heavy feels makes for an imperfect but heartfelt affair. New Netflix film Metal Lords…
The Bubble is a self-indulgent, unfunny mess of a film that continues Apatow’s sharp artistic decline. Few modern comedies have been as self-indulgent, unfunny, strangely…
Apollo 10 ½ is another wonderful work of melancholic yesteryear from cinema’s foremost purveyor of childhood nostalgia. Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood finds…
Windfall doesn’t have much depth but works quite well as a slick and playful noir trifle. Filmmaker Charlie McDowell has established a flair for filtering…
Black Crab is a mishmash of apocalyptic signifiers and sci-fi recency without ever establishing much of a core. The world has ended a few times…
The Adam Project takes the shape of any number of sci-fi adventure romps, but offers a surprisingly developed emotional core. It’s been quite a while…
A Madea Homecoming offers conclusive evidence that Perry’s work as a (melo)dramatist is, at this point, far superior to his comedic endeavors. With 47 directorial…
Texas Chainsaw Massacre is yet another forgettable series entry, distinguished only by its lame attempts at social relevancy. When David Gordon Green revived Laurie…
jeen-yuhs is a harrowing, deeply personal look at Kanye’s early years, celebrating the genius of both an artist and those who helped him build…
Bigbug is all bug and no feature, an obnoxious, puerile work of catastrophic indulgence from Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Much has been made of the fact…
Home Team is roughly as awful a film as Sean Payton seems to be a human based on this deflective vanity project. Sean Payton, head…
The House isn’t quite a home, its neat little anthology package coming too much untied in a miscalculated final leg. The latest in Netflix’s endless…