There is a really boring recent trend in world cinema to make movies about rich people learning valuable lessons. From Triangle of Sadness onwards there has been too many movies about affluent people being all surprised that someone’s money is not the most important thing about them. The trouble is …
Company is directed by Casey Affleck, whose reputation as an actor is not unblemished, and whose reputation as a director will not be helped by the fact there are eight (eight!) credited cinematographers on Company, including himself. It is also not necessarily a positive thing that two of the movie’s …
You won’t have to wait long for directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson to answer the question at the top of most audience members’ minds when diving into Wicker. An adaptation of Ursula Mills’ “The Wicker Husband,” the directorial duo, who are also a real-life couple, know that most moviegoers wonder how on earth Olivia Colman’s …
Arguably, the most terrifying horror stories involve children. Whether it’s as the spook or the victim, it’s just scarier when there’s a child involved. I think it has to do with the innocence and vulnerability of children. We don’t want anything bad to happen to such little guys. But as …
Alejandro G. Iñárritu might have won the discourse game with Digger, but Romain Gavras has won the metatextual satire on the climate crisis with Sacrifice. The critically maligned character study on a vacuous actor suddenly caught in the middle of a terrorist attack during a climate change convention was largely …
We all know how the saying goes, there’s a first time for everything. For this film critic, Verity is officially my first ever delve into the world of Colleen Hoover film adaptations. Yes, Verity is yet another adaptation of a Hoover novel following the recent string of them chasing after …
Life for Carrie has been rough. She’s a severely abused teenage girl who’s been the butt of every joke at school for her whole life. Usually, she just takes it, and at this point, even expects it. But something has changed. After a very traumatic first period, it’s like blood …
Once again Tom Cruise has tried to hit a triple but instead has been immediately caught by the shortstop for a major out. Mr. Cruise’s first non-action role since his Axl Rose impression in 2012’s Rock of Ages was meant to be a bonanza for both the man as well …
My bar for Street Fighter was “fine,” and I don’t mean that as an insult. I went in expecting a perfectly okay video game adaptation with thin characters, story, and overall writing, and I was at peace with that. All I needed was action good enough and pacing fast enough …
Get ready to never look at a restaurant the same way again. I’m sure you assumed that professional kitchens are fast-paced and stressful; it’s not Grandma cooking one meal for your family after all- it’s dozens of chefs making countless dishes for hundreds of people. Each dish has a different …
It might be necessary to have a certain kind of family to truly appreciate this kind of disaster movie. If you know someone – your sister-in-law, perhaps? Or your least favourite cousin? – whose reaction on learning another relative will not be attending Christmas dinner is “How dare that bitch …
Jierz lost everything when a monster killed everyone in her village except for her and her friend Halesz. But then she lost him too when she found out that he wasn’t human either. Jierz vowed to kill the monster who ruined her life, so she joined up with some monster …
Christopher Nolan may have made many a release that is regarded as his best; and that’s the telltale sign of a good director. You get debates over The Prestige, Interstellar, The Dark Knight, Memento and more, but one film that doesn’t crop up as often as it should is Dunkirk. …
The self-indulgence of Hombre al Agua (which translates to “Man Overboard”) is kind of its point, for it’s about the ways people play parts in their lives and how privilege allows the privileged to change the terms of the act. Fortunately a movie in which the writer-director-coproducer also stars as …
MobLand season one was a pleasant television surprise in 2025. It was not revelatory, but it was incredibly entertaining genre fare. The season lived as a respectful inclusion in the vast pantheon of gangster stories. Now entering its second season only one question remains. Can season two maintain the pulsating …
Back in 2023, Brian Duffield (No One Will Save You) turned a nearly wordless Kaitlyn Dever (Booksmart), a lonely house, and some of the best sound design of that year into one of my favorite surprises, and his name has been on my radar ever since. Before that, he co-wrote …
At this point, I don’t need much more than Margaret Qualley (The Substance) on a poster. I’ve followed her since The Leftovers, still one of the best shows of the century, and it’s been a pleasure watching everyone else catch up. Between Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, Poor Things, …
Millie Calloway has a driving need to help women in trouble. In the past, this has gotten her into some bad situations. But that’s all behind her now; she’s going to college to get her degree in social work so she can help women the legal way. But in the …
A family is a fragile thing too often taken for granted, and once the love is gone it’s very hard to bring back. A Common Story has an unusual gimmick: it is about a family, but the child hardly features. For she has grown up and gone off to university, …
Wu Ying is well on his way on the Thousand Li Journey. He has moved from being an outer sect member to an inner sect member in just a few short months. Now he has to keep working on his cultivation and choose a secondary occupation. The options are many …