For a story that wants to give viewers a moral, universal fairy tale, its gratuitous moments sure restrict its potential …
Hostiles shows us, viscerally, that hatred and violence in any age are horrible things.
You might think of Father Figures as a tender tale with a tendency to vomit on your shoes.
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 movie felt like a tragedy to me: a tiny family slowly drowning—incapable of swimming, unwilling to grab lifelines dangling …
This coming-of-age film drills down into the intimate micro-contradictions of life even as it explodes onscreen with many visually problematic …
Last Flag Flying is a powerful, emotive film. That said, it’s also an extremely profane one.
A Bad Moms Christmas is at times sweet, often silly, but almost constantly salacious.
The ’50s costumes and scenery look authentic. But then the whole shebang nosedives into something luridly witless, foul and bloody.
Adam, Solo and Will are more than just statistics. Through story, we see their faces. Feel, in some small way, …













