Category: Reviews

Sports movies might be the most formulaic genre in film history. You can almost always guess how the story will end and most of the time you can see what beats will be hit on the way there. But if a sports movie is incredibly good, you can forgive its formulaic origins. You can sit…
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Watching previews of Tár you might be quick to draw comparisons to psychological thrillers like Black Swan (2010). But the first ten minutes of the two hour and thirty-eight minute drama will change your mind about what kind of movie you’re really watching. The sometimes pretentious world of classical music conducting and composing is on…
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If you haven’t been paying attention to the Russian political climate lately, you likely won’t recognize the name Alexei Navalny. But he’s definitely a name you should know and this documentary will give you a glimpse into his life. For those who don’t know, Navalny has been a player in Russian politics for years and…
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Writer and director Ryan Coogler already had a difficult task trying to follow up Black Panther (2018), one of the biggest superhero movies ever made. But the loss of incredible lead actor Chadwick Boseman in 2020 made it even more challenging to try to recreate the magic of the first movie. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever…
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You probably know director David Leitch from his previous movies Atomic Blonde (2017) and Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw (2019). Much like those two movies, Bullet Train is full of non-stop action packed sequences. We first meet an assassin, Ladybug (Brad Pitt), and it’s clear he’s gone through some soul searching recently (as…
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Buckle up, for one of the weirdest movies of 2022. I should have known it would be wild with director Jeff Baena at the helm. His last movie was called Horse Girl (2020) which was as odd as it sounds. Spin Me Round starts off relatively normal. Amber (Alison Brie) works for a run of…
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You might recognize the name Quinn Shephard from her first feature film, Blame (2017), which got a fair amount of buzz and was even nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. Writer and director Shephard delves into a new topic for her follow-up film, Not Okay. Danni (Zoey Deutch) is a twenty-something photo editor at an…
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When I saw the runtime for The Batman I felt like I couldn’t commit to seeing it. Two hours and fifty-six minutes is a long movie. I figured I’d need to get two sodas and two popcorns to make it through that marathon. Plus, I was very on the fence about Robert Pattinson being Batman.…
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Top Gun: Maverick takes place nearly three decades after the original Top Gun (1986). Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is now a U.S. Navy test pilot, testing hypersonic jets. The program is in jeopardy with Admiral Cain (Ed Harris) wanting to shut it down in favor of a drone program. In a test run, Maverick…
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Writer and director Jordan Peele shot to fame with his first feature length horror film Get Out (2017). His sophomore effort, Us (2019), followed similar themes and was a standard horror movie. For Peele’s third effort, he strays a bit from what he has become known as: a horror movie director. Nope is not a…
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