Limbo is both silly and serious, delightful and, at times, despairing. That’s not an easy mix to get right.
This film hooks into themes of a dangerous man grievously wronged and looking for some terminal retribution.
The twisted theology alone here gives families plenty of reasons to avoid being swept up in this story.
Together Together offers an interesting, at times crude, springboard into a conversation about surrogacy.
Heart-snatching, entrail-spilling, limb-hacking, body-splitting Mortal Kombat gore flows unabated.
What starts out as a grotesque horror movie morphs into something more akin to sci-fi about halfway through.
It’s violent and crass and profane, of course. And it still manages to be very dull and tedious anyway.
This gruesome, unsettling horror pic mixes pagan mysticism, science, witchy ritual and torn flesh.
Concrete Cowboy is a modern redemption tale with an equal number of aces and poison snakes in its boot.
An inescapably trashy movie, with no greater goal than to shock and titillate and further define the word salacious.
This movie’s title is telling: The bad guys are savage. The good guys are savage. But the most brutal, horrific, …
This biographical story pulls no punches as it depicts the racism, drug use, sexual abuse and violence Billie Holiday experienced.
It’s bloodier. More profane. Its quasi-spirituality can be perplexing. And then there’s this: It’s just a darker movie.
Whatever purpose it has, and however well it might be crafted, Cherry makes for a miserable viewing experience.