Elegance Bratton’s “By Any Means” returns to the era of the civil rights struggle not as a history lesson, but as a unique moral…
Family entertainment can have a tendency of being dumbed down, as if children are not meant to understand richer subtext. Of course, the point is that as a kid you’re entertained…
Truth be told, there is something inherently creepy, even sinister, about a lot of children’s characters. This is a topic that has been explored in films such as “Death to Smoochy,” “Brigsby…
For most of its first act, “Insidious: Out of the Further” taps into a particular, primal fear. At least for a good portion of…
David Robert Mitchell’s “The End of Oak Street” is one of those curious hybrids where the director is trying to add artistry to a…
Like most genres, there is a particular art to the making of a good stoner comedy. Dylan Meyer’s compulsively watchable “The Wrong Girls” is…