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Hostiles
(2017)
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Luke Y. Thompson
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Between bouts of violence, it's a dull journey
Posted Nov 16, 2017
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Justice League
(2017)
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Luke Y. Thompson
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Justice League is fun, but in some ways a sadly missed opportunity.
Posted Nov 16, 2017
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The Disaster Artist
(2017)
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Luke Y. Thompson
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As a tagline for The Room once famously, falsely promised, The Disaster Artist burns with the passion of Tennessee Williams. As the subsequent tagline more honestly stated, experience this new black comedy; it's a riot.
Posted Nov 15, 2017
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Amityville: The Awakening
(2017)
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Luke Y. Thompson
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Amityville: The Awakening becomes a different kind of movie for its climax, embracing a cheesy camp factor that might have worked if the entire thing were that way.
Posted Nov 14, 2017
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The Shape of Water
(2017)
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Luke Y. Thompson
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The Shape of Water upends a classic monster movie trope for a more woke world.
Posted Nov 13, 2017
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In the Fade
(2017)
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Luke Y. Thompson
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The best case hope is that viewers realize they're being led to question the Hollywood ending, and that's perhaps a leap of faith.
Posted Nov 12, 2017
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Mudbound
(2017)
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Luke Y. Thompson
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Mudbound is as good an example as you need for why diversity behind the camera matters.
Posted Nov 10, 2017
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Darkest Hour
(2017)
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Luke Y. Thompson
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It's hard to say the star doesn't deserve an award, but it's easy to state that little else about the movie does.
Posted Nov 10, 2017
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Jigsaw
(2017)
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Luke Y. Thompson
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...this is a capable enough Saw sequel, definitely better than parts 4, 5, and 7.
Posted Oct 27, 2017
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Geostorm
(2017)
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Luke Y. Thompson
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Geostorm, which cribs heavily from The Day After Tomorrow and Armageddon, makes you wish you were watching either of those instead.
Posted Oct 23, 2017
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Tragedy Girls
(2017)
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Luke Y. Thompson
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In the end, Tragedy Girls is more Scream than Heathers, and might not attain great cult heights, but it's a fun Friday night flick
Posted Oct 20, 2017
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Killing Gunther
(2017)
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Luke Y. Thompson
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...until Gunther actually shows up, it's a case of rinse-lather-repeat, as each killer basically has one key trait that's played for laughs in the same way again and again.
Posted Oct 19, 2017
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Thor: Ragnarok
(2017)
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Luke Y. Thompson
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Ragnarok isn't one of the more meaningful Marvel movies -- it's just an old-fashioned superhero smackdown. And sometimes that's exactly what you want in a comic book.
Posted Oct 19, 2017
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Batman vs. Two-Face
(2017)
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Luke Y. Thompson
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Return of the Caped Crusaders was the real final blowout; Batman vs. Two-Face feels like a side-tangent, but a fun one.
Posted Oct 17, 2017
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1922
(2017)
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Fred Topel
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Stephen King doesn't generally let his characters off the hook for evil deeds and Wilf and Henry suffer real good in 1922. It's a cautionary tale.Not only 'don't murder your wife,' but maybe the bigger picture of 'listen to women.It's good for the soul.'
Posted Oct 16, 2017
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Breathe
(2017)
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Fred Topel
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The Wages of Fear of polio survival movies. It really is two hours of all the things that could kill someone who needs to live on a respirator.
Posted Oct 13, 2017
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Blade Runner 2049
(2017)
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Luke Y. Thompson
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Is it blasphemy to suggest that Blade Runner 2049 is just okay and doesn't suck?
Posted Oct 06, 2017
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My Little Pony: The Movie
(2017)
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Luke Y. Thompson
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The cinematic hug you seek is right here. Everypony, smile.
Posted Oct 05, 2017
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Professor Marston & the Wonder Women
(2017)
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Todd Gilchrist
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More than a featurette or biography, it's a companion piece that shows precisely how real people can be heroes right alongside the fictional ones they create, just by learning how to be themselves and living that truth.
Posted Sep 29, 2017
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Wheelman
(2017)
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Todd Gilchrist
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Wheelman probably works better as a technical exercise than the white-knuckle thriller it aspires to be, but those eager to watch another The Driver (or, surprisingly, Locke) will find much to admire in Jeremy Rush's debut as a writer-director.
Posted Sep 29, 2017
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Bodied
(2017)
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Todd Gilchrist
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A remarkable tribute to an underrepresented art form and a to-the-minute conversation-starter about intersectionality, political correctness and cultural appropriation dropped like a bomb into the midst of America's fractious political climate.
Posted Sep 29, 2017
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Gerald's Game
(2017)
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Luke Y. Thompson
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The movie, like real life, understands that victim-blaming head-voices are often more persistently traumatizing than the original perp was by himself.
Posted Sep 29, 2017
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Thoroughbreds
(2017)
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Todd Gilchrist
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Thoroughbreds is handsome, occasionally intriguing, but mostly empty -- the kind of movie where people are too busy falling over themselves applauding its polish and performances to notice that their prize winner never gets out of the starting gate.
Posted Sep 25, 2017
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Let the Corpses Tan
(2017)
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Todd Gilchrist
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Let the Corpses Tan might be the best 1970s Italian crime thriller never made.
Posted Sep 25, 2017
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Brawl in Cell Block 99
(2017)
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Todd Gilchrist
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Wrongheaded, mean, oblivious and over the top, Brawl In Cell Block 99 is a mess of an action movie, while managing to be a complete disaster as a social drama.
Posted Sep 25, 2017
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The LEGO NINJAGO Movie
(2017)
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Luke Y. Thompson
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Lego's #3 still beats some studios' #1, but they can't afford to keep the decline going
Posted Sep 20, 2017
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Kingsman: The Golden Circle
(2017)
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Luke Y. Thompson
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This may be more fun than Kingsman: The Secret Service, but it's still short of greatness, or rather, long of it.
Posted Sep 18, 2017
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mother!
(2017)
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Luke Y. Thompson
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Mother! starts as elegantly as Black Swan and concludes as grotesquely stupidly as Pi, but you can't take your eyes off it, for good and ill.
Posted Sep 15, 2017
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Birth of the Dragon
(2016)
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Luke Y. Thompson
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If you like Bruce Lee, try to get Ng cast in a different biopic, but avoid this one like a one-inch punch.
Posted Sep 11, 2017
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Bushwick
(2017)
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Luke Y. Thompson
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...in its best moments combines the role-reversal/neighborhood pride of Attack the Block with the "we are the enemy" mentality of The Purge.
Posted Sep 11, 2017
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It
(2017)
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Luke Y. Thompson
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The new cinematic Pennywise is a villain for the ages, and while you'll want more of him, it's hard to fault the movie for rationing out his pleasures rather than over-selling them.
Posted Sep 11, 2017
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