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THE SURFER Gives Audiences One of Nicolas Cage’s Best Performance in Years

May 2, 2025May 2, 2025

A WORKING MAN, Jason Statham Doing Jason Statham Things in an Otherwise Routine Actioner

March 28, 2025March 28, 2025

THE MONKEY, Death Comes For Us All, Laughing All The Way

February 21, 2025February 26, 2025

CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD, Superhero Fatigue is Here and It’s Real

February 14, 2025February 14, 2025

PADDINGTON IN PERU, Everybody’s Favorite Bear Returns, Unfortunately to Diminishing Results

February 14, 2025February 24, 2025

Robert Eggers’s Provocative, Subversive NOSFERATU Will Enthrall Most, Perplex Others

December 27, 2024December 31, 2024

SMILE 2, Same as The First Time, Just Bigger, Bolder, and Gorier

October 18, 2024October 18, 2024

LONGLEGS Short on Scares, Long on Nic Cage-Inspired Freakiness

August 26, 2024August 28, 2024

BLINK TWICE: A Faulty Third Act Undermines Zoe Kravitz’s Promising Filmmaking Debut

August 23, 2024August 27, 2024

THELMA Gives 94-Year-Old June Squibb the Role of a Lifetime

June 21, 2024June 21, 2024

THE FALL GUY, Genre Mash-Up Delivers Sloppy Love Letter to Stunt Performers and the People Who Dig Them

May 3, 2024May 10, 2024

Review: BOY KILLS WORLD, Truth (Mostly) In Advertising

April 26, 2024April 26, 2024

REVIEW: CHALLENGERS Elevates Zendaya to Movie-Star Status

April 26, 2024April 26, 2024

Review: HOUSEKEEPING FOR BEGINNERS, A Community Unlike Any Other (Except For All the Rest)

April 5, 2024April 26, 2024

Review: THE FIRST OMEN, A Prequel to a Horror Classic That Fails More Often Than It Succeeds

April 5, 2024April 26, 2024

Review: GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE: All Kaiju Action, All Kaiju Time

March 29, 2024March 29, 2024

DUNE: PART TWO Review: A Triumph of Spectacle, Character, and Theme

March 1, 2024March 14, 2024

Death and Other Details, Another Murder-Mystery, This Time With Mandy Patinkin as the “World’s Greatest Detective”

January 16, 2024March 4, 2024

THE BEEKEEPER Gives Jason Statham One of His Best Action Roles in Years

January 11, 2024January 26, 2024

NIGHT SWIM Brings Aquatic Horror To Your Friendly Neighborhood Swimming Pool

January 4, 2024January 4, 2024

In Andrew Haigh’s Poignant ALL OF US ARE STRANGERS, You Can Go Home Again

December 22, 2023December 22, 2023

THE ZONE OF INTEREST: Jonathan Glazer Once Again Delivers Masterpiece-Level Filmmaking

December 15, 2023December 16, 2023

WONKA Prequel Delivers a Passably Entertaining, Lightweight Confection For the Masses

December 13, 2023December 23, 2023

THANKSGIVING: A Gory, Gnarly, Grisly Slasher for the Holidays

November 16, 2023December 2, 2023

IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE Blu-Ray Review: Sci-Fi/Horror Cult Flick Gets an A+ Upgrade

November 8, 2023November 8, 2023

CUJO: 40TH ANNIVERSARY Blu-Ray Review: 1983’s Third-Best King Adaptation Gets a High-Def Polish

November 7, 2023November 8, 2023

MEG 2: THE TRENCH 4K/Blu-Ray Review: Giant Shark Enthusiasts Will Be Disappointed

October 31, 2023November 2, 2023

David Fincher’s THE KILLER Review: Filmography as Autobiography

October 25, 2023November 6, 2023

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON Review: Scorsese Enters His 80s With Another Stone-Cold Masterpiece

October 17, 2023November 6, 2023

FOE: Sci-Fi Dystopian Tale Wastes Talent On Both Sides of the Camera

October 11, 2023October 11, 2023

THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER Will Make an Unbeliever Out Of Anyone

October 8, 2023October 11, 2023

SAW X Brings Back Everyone’s Favorite Puzzle King To Nightmare Inducing Results

September 30, 2023October 6, 2023

GRAN TURISMO Review: A Spectacular Ad for the PlayStation Sim

September 3, 2023October 6, 2023

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM Review: The TMNT Movie We Should Have Had Decades Ago

August 2, 2023October 6, 2023

INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY: Once More, With Less Feeling

July 5, 2023July 5, 2023

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 Review: A Worth-the-Wait Trilogy Capper

May 3, 2023May 9, 2023

Arrow Heads #105: THE ASSASSINATION BUREAU

April 26, 2023May 3, 2023

RENFIELD Review: Horror-Action-Comedy Undone By Tonal Incongruities

April 13, 2023April 28, 2023

65 Review: Prehistoric in More Ways Than One

April 10, 2023April 28, 2023

SUPER MARIO BROS: Nintendo’s Flagship Series Gets an Underwhelming Big-Screen Adaptation

April 6, 2023April 28, 2023

Nicholas Ray’s REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE [4K/Blu-Ray Review]

April 6, 2023April 28, 2023

ENYS MEN Review: An Island, Isolation, and Mind Tricks Everywhere

March 31, 2023April 28, 2023

4K/Blu-Ray Review: THE BOXTROLLS Delivers Stellar Stop-Motion Animation and Layered Storytelling

March 3, 2023April 19, 2023

OPERATION FORTUNE: RUSE DE GUERRE, A Time-Waster By Any Other Name

March 2, 2023April 28, 2023

COCAINE BEAR Fully Delivers on its Comically Absurd Premise

February 24, 2023April 28, 2023

4K/Blu-Ray Review: THE FABELMANS Shine on Physical Media

February 19, 2023April 19, 2023

MAGIC MIKE’S LAST DANCE, Truth in Advertising (Hopefully)

February 11, 2023April 30, 2023

In CONSECRATION, Sympathy For the Devil

February 10, 2023May 6, 2023

In KNOCK AT THE CABIN, M. Night Shyamalan Delivers a Master Class in Suspense

February 2, 2023May 2, 2023

ALICE, DARLING, No Adventures in Wonderland

January 20, 2023

SKINAMARINK Delivers Unforgettable Experiential Horror

January 13, 2023

M3GAN, Multi-Layered Family Drama Wrapped Around A Cautionary Sci-Fi/Horror Tale

January 6, 2023May 6, 2023

PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH Delivers High Style, Verve, and Vibes to Spare

December 27, 2022

EMANCIPATION, Will Smith Delivers a Powerful, Moving Performance in Civil War Drama

December 9, 2022

WOMEN TALKING: Sarah Polley Delivers One of This Year’s Best

December 4, 2022

THE FABELMANS or Portrait of a Filmmaker as a Young Man

November 27, 2022

THE MENU Delivers Epicurean Delights and Horrors in Equal Measure

November 18, 2022

Blu-Ray/4K Double Pack: WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE and THE WAR OF THE WORLDS

October 4, 2022

Criterion Review: EXOTICA

September 30, 2022

Supernatural Horror SMILE Shocks, Scares, and Disturbs

September 30, 2022May 6, 2023

4K/Blu-Ray Review: THE LOST BOYS Has Never Looked Better

September 23, 2022

THE WOMAN KING: Oscar-Winner Viola Davis’s Powerful Performance Elevates Historical Epic

September 16, 2022

PEARL: Ti West, Mia Goth, and a Slasher Origin Story for the Ages

September 16, 2022

EMERGENCY DECLARATION, South Korean Disaster-In-The-Sky Delivers the Genre Goods

August 19, 2022

BATTLE OF THE WORLDS: A Cranky Claude Rain Saves the World From Idiocy, Ignorance, and Aliens

August 12, 2022

BODIES BODIES BODIES, Savage Gen Z Satire Hits Far More Than It Misses

August 5, 2022May 6, 2023

PREY, A Return to Form for the Once Floundering PREDATOR Franchise

NOPE, Jordan Peele Delivers the Blockbuster Entertainment We Didn’t Know We Needed

GOOD MADAM, Provocative Slow-Burn Horror

THE GRAY MAN, Netflix’s $200M Gamble, Fails to Pay Off

NEON LIGHTS: Losing the Plot, Descending into Madness and/or Tedium

THE FORGIVEN, Morocco-Set Anti-Colonialist Satire Soars Then Stumbles

RUBIKON, Where Everyone Has Gone Before and Will Again

THE BLACK PHONE, Nightmare Fuel From Two of the Best Horror Filmmakers Working Today

Kino’s DR. FU MANCHU Double Feature Offers a Look Back into a Far Less Enlightened Past

The Archivist #142: Spencer Tracy Shines in a Dual, Dueling Role: DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE

JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION Delivers More of the Same, Just Slightly Different

CRIMES OF THE FUTURE, Meet the New Flesh, Same as the Old (New) Flesh

June 2, 2022May 6, 2023

OBI-WAN KENOBI, Chilling With Everybody’s Favorite Jedi Master

Criterion Collection Review: MR. KLEIN, a Brilliant Kafkaesque Character Study

MEN Delivers Deliriously Grotesque Body Horror Mixed with Metaphysical, Metaphorical Themes

HAPPENING: A Timely, Urgent Call to Political Activism

OPERATION MINCEMEAT, An Old-School, World War II Drama

HATCHING, A Bizarrely Mesmerizing Coming-of-Age Tale

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS Goes Boldly Back to the Future

DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS Gives the Master of the Mystical Arts the Film He’s…

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN Celebrates Its 70th Anniversary in Spectacular Fashion (4K/Blu-Ray)

VIRUS-32 Delivers Over Familiar Horror Thrills, Chills, and Spills

April 26, 2022May 2, 2023

THE CELLAR Offers Familiar Sights But Few Delights

MOON KNIGHT Delivers Another Streaming Triumph (Mostly) for Marvel & Disney+

March 29, 2022May 2, 2023

The Archivist #139: Gene Kelly Delivers a Swashbuckling Performance [THE THREE MUSKETEERS]

Criterion Review: THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX

WINDFALL Fails to Hit the Mark and Then Some

DEEP WATER Takes A Deliriously Deep Dive Into Mind- and Reality-Bending Absurdity

OFFSEASON Delivers Eerie Cosmic Horror on a Micro-Budget

THE ADAM PROJECT Gives Ryan Reynolds Another Sub-Par Star Vehicle

THE BATMAN, Grim-Dark Bleakness In All Its Complex, Contradictory Beauty

Sci-Fi Thriller COSMIC DAWN Provokes, Intrigues, Then Disappoints

February 11, 2022

BLACKLIGHT, Liam Neeson Sleepwalks Through Another Dull Misfire

February 11, 2022

MOONFALL: Roland Emmerich Makes A Semi-Triumphant Return to the Disaster Genre

February 7, 2022

Ambitious Desert-Set Thriller BORREGO Half-Succeeds, Half-Fails

January 14, 2022

Slyly Subversive Home-Invasion Thriller SEE FOR ME Delivers the Goods

January 7, 2022

THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH, An Adaptation for the 21st Century and Beyond

January 3, 2022

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