There are some movies where a funny enough performance can still shine through some muddled material. Brad Pitt accomplishes such a feat in “Bullet Train,” a loud, chaotic mess of a…
Among modern directors, few have captured the sheer tension of trying to beat the odds like Ron Howard. His new film, “Thirteen Lives,” proves he still beats his contemporaries in staging…
If one looks close enough at influencer culture, you realize we live in uniquely absurd times. The internet has given everyone the power to commodify themselves. Fame is achieved by sporting the right…
There is not much need for yet another “Predator” movie. Out of all the ongoing franchises continuously flooding the market, this one has defined the term derivative for years now. And yet, here…
With so many high-brow movies flooding the market every year featuring heroes in spandex, animation is left as the one genre that brings a breezier, fun tone to comic book characters. “DC…
B.J. Novak somehow manages to package all of the blatant divisions and finer nuances of contemporary America in “Vengeance.” It begins as a comedy before gradually turning into something else that…
Rebecca Hall deals with unspeakable trauma and grief in her latest film, the psychological thriller “Resurrection.” Hall plays Margaret, a British woman and single mother living on the East Coast. One…
We have an addiction to spectacle in America combined with a fascination for the unknown. One reason conspiracy theories appeal so much to a swathe of the population is because grandiose answers can…
Movies like Netflix’s “The Gray Man” should bring some comfort to struggling filmmakers despairing over not having access to massive budgets. Here is an expensive, globe-trotting thriller by the directors of “Avengers:…
Set in the near future, one family’s quest to live a peaceful life outside of Beirut is interrupted after the garbage from which they are escaping ends up in their backyard, literally, in…
The curse of translating a major novel to the big screen lies in the relationship between the reader’s imagination and the text. A movie has to find a way to tell a visual…
A war widow seeks to grab hold of some happiness in her life and ends up inspiring others along the way in “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” a mid-century couture comedy from…