Mark Tapio Kines

Willem Dafoe plays an art thief who, after breaking into a wealthy architect’s New York penthouse to steal three priceless Egon Schiele paintings, finds...

Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film Ikiru – translated as “to live” in English – is such a bona fide classic that it begs the question, “Why...

I knew almost nothing about Aftersun going in, except that its story involves a father and daughter going on vacation and that its star Paul Mescal received a...

It was just a couple of years ago when I finally caught the 1930 screen adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque’s landmark...

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is epic yet kooky, family-centric yet overstuffed, as if Robert Rodriguez had been given $200 million to make one of his Spy...

Editor’s Note: This article has been published in our November 2022 Print edition. Enjoy. Whenever Los Angeles County residents are not sitting in traffic...

I’m breaking my rules a little in that I missed The Banshees of Inisherin in theaters and caught it on streaming two months later, but I’m reviewing...

A half-century into his storied career, Steven Spielberg proves he still has the ability to surprise by offering us an intimate and cautiously revealing...

Brendan Fraser’s “comeback movie” is a finely-acted character drama given unusually restrained direction from Darren Aronofsky. The Whale...

Predictably twee feature-length adaptation of the popular stop-motion shorts in which the titular character (voiced by cowriter Jenny Slate) delights a human...

A blockbuster about Elvis Presley should be the be-all, end-all of rock biopics. And considering all the gaudy kitsch associated with the King of Rock and Roll...

The only intriguing thing about Downton Abbey: A New Era is its title. For at least a couple of reasons – without ruining any of the film’s minor plot...

Initially I had no interest in Top Gun: Maverick. I saw the first Top Gun in the theater back in 1986 and found it corny machismo and rah-rah pro-military junk....

In an alternate universe, one without a pandemic, writer/director/editor Chloé Zhao would have had two 2020 releases under her belt: Nomadland and Eternals,...

A Movie Review of Molly’s Game by Mark Tapio Kines

A Movie Review of Molly’s Game by Mark Tapio Kines