Thoroughbreds uses its detached female leads to unfold a slow-boiling commentary on our emotionally damaged society.
This film is emotionally raw, sometimes gruesome, and scattered with wince-inducing interactions.
Death Wish suggests that society’s most troubling issues can best be addressed by the blazing barrel of a vigilante’s gun.
When this film’s urban gunslingers take aim, it’s not just six-guns popping and a few errant bullets zinging off a …
I, Tonya is presented as a dark comedy, and yes, it can be funny. But it’s a tragedy, too.
This tragic morality tale unpacks how one stingy man’s unfathomable riches nearly destroyed his grandson.
Hostiles shows us, viscerally, that hatred and violence in any age are horrible things.
For a story that wants to give viewers a moral, universal fairy tale, its gratuitous moments sure restrict its potential …
The Shape of Water is an odd, beautiful, jarring, graphically problematic kettle of fish.
Explicit content turns The Disaster Artist into a bad movie about a bad movie.
Novitiate, like many of its characters, walks away from this curious form of faith a bit bewildered, a bit disgusted.
Call Me by Your Name celebrates the lie of a culture that’s determined to crown every individual the king or …
British writer/director Martin McDonagh paints a discordant picture here of an awful, provincialized middle America.
This coming-of-age film drills down into the intimate micro-contradictions of life even as it explodes onscreen with many visually problematic …
A Bad Moms Christmas is at times sweet, often silly, but almost constantly salacious.