Movie Review

“In space, no one can hear you scream.

"Crime 101" does what it sets out to do; that is, it delivers the thrills and chills appropriate to the genre.

Full of clear northern light and personal crisis, Sentimental Value felt almost like a throwback film for me. It explores emotions not as an adjunct to the...

There have been many Frankensteins since Boris Karloff donned the bolts and boots back in 1931; this is one of the more retrograde versions in the sense that it...

Movie Review | One Battle After Another by Garrett Rowlan

"Caught Stealing plays fair with the audience." By Garret Rowlan

Spike Lee’s new movie, Highest 2 Lowest, is an overstuffed film that feels longer than its 130-minute...

“We are at the center of history,” says Joaquin Phoenix, playing the mentally unraveling town sheriff Joe Cross at the end of Eddington, the new film by Ari...

The formula remains about the same: narrow escapes from snapping jaws that always seem to just miss their prey.

When did zombies go global? (1932) and (1942) kept the genre in Haiti, but George Romero’s , 1968, shifted the carnage to Pennsylvania and added an...

Well, why do you think they call it formula? Following tie-in ads for a watch company and a hotel chain, both with car-racing motifs, the theater lights dimmed,...

If one grows tired of the overly commercial, programmatic, and common-denominator-targeted movie fare, I suggest "Friendship," whose viewing was a bittersweet...

My credulity, not to mention my eardrums, having been recently tested by the derring-do of Tom Cruise in the recent Mission Impossible reboot, I sought solace...

Movie Review | The Monkey by Garrett Rowlan

Covering almost 50 years of Brazilian history, as seen through the experiences of its main character, Walter Salles’s "I’m Still Here" is a testament to...

Movie Review | The Brutalist, by Garrett Rowlan