A bit messy and rough around the edges, Guy Ritchie trusts Jason Statham to bring Wrath Of Man across the finish line, which the veteran actor does the very best he can.
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Here Today is not at all a good movie, but writer/director/lead actor Billy Crystal tries his hardest to make this scattershot look at aging and dementia something endearing and meaningful.
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Those who know Roy Andersson’s work will eagerly embrace About Endlessness and it’s vignette-style, largely plotless look at how people matter and where we belong in the world.
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Zhang Yimou’s new film Cliff Walkers, a Chinese spy film set in the 1930s, is a beautifully crafted but narratively dense story that requires a viewer’s utmost attention.
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Michael B. Jordan gets his chance to lead a big blockbuster action movie franchise, though Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse is an average-at-best, forgettable introduction.
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Ben Sharrock’s BAFTA-nominated breakthrough film Limbo provides an insightful, offbeat look at the refugee and immigrant experience, through the eyes of a young Syrian man in conflict with himself and his family.
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Nikole Beckwith’s Together Together is a smart, clever relationship movie which goes a different direction than many might anticipate.
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Tied together by the idea of where we fit into an ever-changing and evolving society, this year’s Oscar nominees for Best Animated Short Film walk us through stories of grief, uncertainty, anxiety, classism, and embracing the mundane routines of everyday life.
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This year’s Oscar nominees for Best Live Action Short Film are the best in years, with a case made that any of these films could win. Four films reflect on the global issue of policing, protection, and law enforcement, with a fifth film focused on compassion for those different than ourselves.
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Emotionally draining, yet important and powerful, this year’s slate of Oscar nominated Documentary Short Subject films are moving tributes to people sacrificing their hearts, minds, and emotional wellbeing for the betterment of others.
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Voyagers may have a grand vision of young-adult, dystopian science-fiction adventure, but the film never establishes enough credibility to make this matter all that much.
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Emma Seligman’s Shiva Baby crackles with electricity in a tense, darkly comedic story of a 20-something young woman attending a family shiva, only to have her past and present complicate the afternoon.
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While there will be some who simply are satisfied by Godzilla and Kong’s Hoss Fights, Godzilla vs. Kong is a movie that underwhelms and underperforms in virtually every way.
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As absurd and violent as it is, Nobody is a stylish, throwback, action thriller which lets Bob Odenkirk become the action movie star you never knew you needed him to be.
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Though not from a lack of trying, basketball drama BOOGIE wants to be a hard-scrabble story where a main character overcomes the obstacles, but the film simply fails to deliver effectively on those intentions.
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Raya and the Last Dragon is a rousing fantasy adventure for viewers of all ages, providing meaningful messages, important representation and a simply fantastic visual experience.
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One of the best music documentaries of recent memory, Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry is an honest, forthcoming look at the trajectory the 17-year-old pop star found herself on as she became the most popular performer in the world in 2019.
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The 2021 reboot of Tom & Jerry is a poorly executed movie which makes one wonder what the point of bringing back two animated characters was when they simply exist to prop up an uninteresting story of human beings treating each other poorly.
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Obnoxious, absurd, and absolutely hilarious, Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo deliver two memorable comedic creations in Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar.
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The Map of Tiny Perfect Things is a fun, endearing, better-than-average young adult romantic comedy about two teenagers trying to figure out why they are caught up together in a time loop.
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