When Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg paired up for the surreal buddy cop comedy The Other Guys, you sensed a new dim bulb dynamic duo in Read More

It’s been an issue every since the dawn of cinema. At some point, every leading man finds himself faced with the prospect of becoming a character Read More

Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express isn’t so much a runaway train as a casual elegant glider; it doesn’t chug on a track so much Read More

Office politics get gory in Mayhem, an action/comedy/horror concoction in which coworkers engage in bloody combat. The setup is similar to this year’s The Belko Experiment, Read More

Thor: Ragnarok would be the best ever entry in the Thor franchise if not for its own trailer, which encapsulates slam-bang, hyper-stylized, Led Zeppelin-scored, rainbow-colored lunacy Read More

Princess Cyd uses quiet grace and astute observation to transcend dramatic tropes we’ve seen countless times. Typically, a story about two very different people from disparate Read More

Sometimes, the best cinematic advice is to leave well enough alone. Sure, some can make a go of revamping previous classics, but for the most part, Read More

It’s seems like a cinematic no-brainer. George Clooney, directing a script by his buddies in off-kilter crime, Joel and Ethan Coen, and featuring Matt Damon as Read More

We stand and salute them, placing hand over heart and getting teary eyed whenever they are mentioned or the National Anthem blares across a sports stadium. Read More

In a still relatively young career, Yorgos Lanthimos has carved out an inimitable auteurist space. His films are instantly recognizable: brazenly bizarre concepts presented with deceptive Read More

Let’s face it. Ever since Irwin Allen passed from this mortal coil and took his terrifically tacky disaster films with him (The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Read More

It’s time to stop raking Tyler Perry and his urban melodramatics over the critic coals. Granted, he’s not a terrific filmmaker and his plotting can best Read More

A serial killer drama set in a snowy, scary Scandinavian outback, directed by the man who made the brilliant vampire reimagining, Let the Right One In. Read More

It’s tough for horror-comedies to sustain a sharp wit with cutting commentary on genre and what it represents. Tragedy Girls maintains its edge and incisiveness throughout. Read More

It sounds like the kind of high concept claptrap that left a massive stain on the ’80s. Back before superheroes and shared universes became the thing Read More

They say that if you find the right moment, the circumstance or the situation that set the tone for their entire life, you can learn a Read More

It was only a matter of time before Jackie Chan was forced into one of the familiar Hollywood action tropes. His entire career has been built Read More

Sean Baker shot one of the best films of 2015, Tangerine, on an iPhone. His follow-up, The Florida Project, was made somewhat more conventionally but it Read More

If books (and adaptations) like Alive have taught us anything, it’s that plane crash victims, especially ones trapped in the snow covered mountains of remote regions, Read More

Science fiction can be divided along two distinct lines–call it the Star Trek vs. Star Wars ideal. The former focuses on ideas. The latter is all Read More