Ava is a generic, poorly-shot, and utterly pointless entry into the female assassin subgenre. Tate Taylor must be the most charming man in the world. There’s…
Japanese zombie comedy Get the Hell Out, which also peppers in plenty of political commentary, wears its obvious influences like a badge of honor: some…
The Paramedic is the gleeful, glorious pulp-trash the world needs right now. New Spanish-language thriller The Paramedic wastes no time in establishing its title character, Angel (Mario…
Spiral is content lean into cheap scare tactics at the expense of the more novel, potent direction is could have taken. New horror thriller Spiral…
The new Australian western The Furnace opens with text explaining that, in the 19th century, the British government imported camels into the Outback, as they…
The Nest is a deeply obvious, under-cooked attempt at horror-flecked domestic portraiture. The Nest, writer-director Sean Durkin’s long-awaited follow-up to his remarkably assured debut feature, 2011’s…
It’s not much of a surprise to discover that John Denver Trending is the feature debut of writer-director Arden Rod Condez. Given the opportunity to…
It would be easy to write off the dark comedy I predatori (The Predators, in English) as an exercise in nihilism. The corpse of Friedrich…
Victim(s), the debut feature from Layla Zhuqing Ji, is the latest in a long line of cautionary tales in which it is made abundantly clear…
The low-stakes Get Duked! thankfully proves to be a more spirited and memorable comedy than its godawful title suggests. It has to be said: Get…
The Pale Door is a tonally mismanaged botch job that unsuccessfully cribs from stronger genre entries. There’s a bit of a shared cinematic history between the…
Out Stealing Horses is a lame prestige film knockoff that trades in empty platitudes. Based on the acclaimed 2003 Norweigan novel of the same name, the…
The One and Only Ivan is an intentionally inclusive, surprisingly unbusy animated offering from Disney. Over the past few weeks, Disney has gone on a bit…
Words on Bathroom Walls is emotionally manipulative and easy to mock but has moments that are genuinely affecting. Broadly speaking, film has not exactly been kind…
An American Pickle doesn’t aspire to much more than delivering two Rogens for the price of one. “Sweet” and “gentle” are two unlikely descriptors with which…
Archive is a lame rehash of half a century’s worth of sci-fi tropes. The new futuristic thriller Archive is aptly titled, as it feels like a…
Jenny Slate is a gift to the world. The Sunlit Night is not. The world does not deserve Jenny Slate, nor does The Sunlit Night, an inconsequential…
Hirokazu Kore-eda feels distinctly uninterested in his own material here, a sentiment sure to be echoed by audiences. Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda has consistently shown an affinity…
Ever since H.G. Wells unleashed The Time Machine upon the world in 1895, artists have used the conceit to impart important life lessons, waxing broadly…
There is more than a bit of irony to be found in the fact that the new Will Ferrell/Netflix comedy Eurovision Song Contest: The Story…