2019 already has a contender for best of the year. ESCAPE ROOM, while not a particularly thrilling adventure, is a thematically labyrinthine, postmodernist ...

I first heard about THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD from a random Reddit post. Marketing was fairly limited for this, and I mostly ...

The second of two Ruth Ginsberg films made in 2018—along with the documentary RBG—the grandiose and tenuously-connected-to-reality ON THE BASIS OF SEX is ...

With SULLY, THE 15:17 TO PARIS, and now THE MULE, I’d wager that Clint Eastwood has entered a phase in his life that ...

WELCOME TO MARWEN is the cinematic equivalent of a gentrified gay bar. Zemeckis has always struck me as a bit of a peabrain ...

I’m not the biggest fan of superhero movies, but maybe I would be if more of them looked like AQUAMAN. James Wan’s plunge ...

There is a joke in the Peter Jackson-produced MORTAL ENGINES that caught me completely off-guard. And judging from the general breathlessness of the ...

I’d feel dumber about calling THE FRONT RUNNER “Oscar bait” if it wasn’t marketing itself so aggressively as such. It isn’t big or ...

In a year filled to the brim with blockbusters and franchise hopefuls, it’s refreshing to see a low-budget horror comedy that dares to ...

After an original trilogy, a failed reboot series, and a new reboot in the MCU, the idea of yet another Spider-Man film hardly ...