As Marvel Studios expands its empire into decidedly lesser-known superhero properties, it’s becoming increasingly clear that said properties are the real MCU playgrounds. While the core Read More

It’s very quaint to refer to Hacksaw Ridge as a film of warring sensibilities, but no truer assessment exists. At once, it is the story of Read More

The Accountant is a film whose ambitious intricacy is also its undoing. A movie with so many characters and narrative strands that dangle, loosely interconnected, with Read More

If one requires proof that The Birth of a Nation is brazenly incendiary, one needn’t look any further than the title itself. For a film about Read More

Peter Berg has built his directorial career as a more socially aware version of Michael Bay. Immersed in his brash style, he likes to blow stuff Read More

Is Queen of Katwe so refreshing because it’s necessary, or so necessary because it’s refreshing? Perhaps that’s an odd sidebar observation for a film that is Read More

If Bridget Jones’s Diary was a charmed flash of Brit rom-com brilliance, and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason a terrible curse, Bridget Jones’s Baby is Read More

Emerging from Sully, one thought immediately and continuously rolled through my head: this true story, miraculous and inspiring though it is, doesn’t necessarily lend itself to Read More

Life sucks, but it’s also a beautiful gift. The universe is brutally cruel, yet also a graceful wonder. People can be infuriating, but they are just Read More

The Light Between Oceans is an epic of crashing waves and streaming tears, a film in which the torrent of the sea is matched only by Read More

Don’t Breathe is a classic howler, a full-throttle white knuckler that is precisely designed to become a cult classic. I suppose that’s the effect of the Read More

“Magic” is a word tossed about quite often in Disney’s remake of Pete’s Dragon, and here is the rare instance where that particular superlative actually applies. Read More

So effective was the marketing campaign for Suicide Squad that it convinced the viewing public that the film was a rollicking blast of gleeful anarchy, the Read More

Ironic that a would-be sensationalistic, teen-tantric cyber thriller like Nerve would help me crystallize a long-gestating theory on high-concept polemics, but things happen. In essence, it’s Read More

It’s been 24 years since Absolutely Fabulous debuted on British television, which is astonishing enough as an irrevocable reminder of one’s own aging (naughty me, I Read More

There are dual responsibilities for anyone reviewing Ghostbusters: one must address the ridiculous misogynist controversy that has leached itself onto the movie’s existence, and also do Read More

The BFG is something of a wondrous anomaly coming from Steven Spielberg. On the one hand, it is about as inventive and beautiful as any other Read More

No longer does Toy Story get to claim sole credit for generating a Pixar sequel that surpasses the original. Finding Dory, the latest tentpole from the Read More

Anyone who creates a comedy film with a major studio for big-screen distribution clearly wouldn’t mind making a splash at the box-office, but the guys behind Read More

In Shane Black’s grand tradition of gruff-and-morbid buddy comedies comes The Nice Guys, which is a comedy delivered at blunt-force, with a sly smirk. It’s goofily Read More