Disney’s The Finest Hours feels like an old-fashioned adventure yarn that wants to inspire as much as thrill.
There’s a huge difference between difficult topics and difficult—sometimes gratuitous—content.
The story’s super creepy setup makes a notable shift from the dark side, shall we say, to the psychological side …
Caring is a messy business, the movie tells us, sometimes quite literally. Blessed are those who get their hands dirty.
This is a message movie, certainly, wearing its cautionary point of view on its toe tag.
It’s got a good—even earnest—heart when it comes to the never ending demands of fatherhood. But moviegoers are forced to …
While the surface story is pretty straightforward, there glides underneath (like the white whale itself) a spiritually tinged parable.
I wish they’d left the profanity and sexual nods on the mat right along with the sweat and the blood. …
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 is no more a nice movie than Katniss is a nice person. But …
Based on an Oscar-winning Argentinean drama, this is a film that’s uncomfortable and sometimes downright difficult to watch.
The fact that all 33 miners made it out of the mine is something of a miracle. And this movie …
Spectre’s conspicuous turn to the past also gives us a new opportunity to notice how Bond has changed over the …