All the goodwill that Zack Snyder earned for his cut of DC’s Justice League is pretty much thrown out the window with this mess of a zombie flick. Sure, Dave Bautista and Tig Notaro are super-fun as members of a crew sent into undead-overrun Las Vegas to steal money from […]
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P!nk: All I Know So Far
The rock-doc chronicling the popster’s 2019 European tour is a revealing look into her life on the road as she balances long days rehearsing and performing with offstage time as a mother and wife. Not only is it fun and infused with all her greatest musical hits, it gives us […]
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The Dry
What could have been a fairly standard detective-suspense flick is upped a level when the drought-stricken Australian Outback becomes a character in and of itself. Mysteries swirl around the film, which stars Eric Bana as a town pariah returning after 20 years to help solve a grisly crime. It’s raw […]
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Dream Horse
I’m not sure if there’s an official genre for all the great British based-on-a-true-story films that take place in small towns and are full of quirky characters and are anchored by a wholly uplifting message (Waking Ned Devine, Fisherman’s Friends, Calendar Girls, etc.)… but add this one to the list. […]
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Finding You
Barely a step above Hallmark schlock, this British rom-com plays like a B-level mash-up of Leap Year and Notting Hill. The script is super-cheesy, the actors seem out of their league (minus Vanessa Redgrave in an odd cameo), and the story is pretty much telegraphed from the word go. Still, […]
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The Woman in the Window
As if multiple re-shoots and delays weren’t enough of a clue already, the finished film based on AJ Finn’s runaway bestseller proves that even really good source material doesn’t guarantee a similar result. Yes, Amy Adams is great (just as she was in last year’s horrendous Hillbilly Elegy), and the […]
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Those Who Wish Me Dead
For my money, writer-director Taylor Sheridan (Sicario, Wind River, TV’s Yellowstone) is among the best in the business these days, but this Angelina Jolie starrer falters early and often. Aside from taking Michael Koryta’s best-selling novel and jettisoning all but the basic story, the film comes off as a rather […]
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Profile
Directed and co-written by Timur Bekmambetov and based on a true story, this drama about a young European woman’s attempts to infiltrate and expose the ISIS recruiting network is as unnerving as it is believable. Though the screenlife format rings a little gimmicky at first (a la 2018’s Searching), it […]
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Wrath of Man
Though you might live your life by the mantra, “If you’ve seen one Jason Statham movie, you’ve seen them all,” Wrath of Man is among his better offerings (and currently holds—at 90%—the highest Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score of any of his flicks front the past 20 years). Here he’s a […]
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