About Deirdre Crimmins
Deirdre Crimmins is Chicago-based freelance film critic and a member of the Boston Online Film Critics Association. She contributes regularly to FilmThrills, Rue Morgue magazine, and Birth.Movies.Death. Though a lifelong horror film fan, she also loves a good musical or screwball comedy when the mood strikes.
Horror anthologies are tricky. Not only do they need to keep the audience’s attention through repeated changes in story and tone, but they also need to maintain consistent quality and visual language through these changes to...
When the apocalypse finally comes to Earth, there’s no way of knowing what form it will take. Might it be a plague? Or a meteor, like the one that took the dinosaurs? Cinema has been exploring the various ways the End of Day...
It’s easy to love a big, dumb action flick. You show up to cheer on the good guy, hope the bad guy dies in an interesting way, and rest your brain for a bit. What’s not to like? Unfortunately, ‘Skyscraper’ ...
Vampires and summer cruises do not seem like they’d be compatible, but somehow these disparate pieces come together to form a fun family film for these long summer days.
When ‘Get Out’ was released in 2017, more than a few people declared it the beginning of a new era of socially conscious horror films. For those who have been paying attention to horror for the past 80 years or so, the...
Whether it’s a reboot or a remake, ‘SuperFly’ is an overall fun but flawed entry into the Neo-Blaxploitation genre.
The mantra repeated in ‘Tag’ might as well be the overall tagline for the film: “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” The film never stops playing, and the ...
‘Hotel Artemis’ commits one of the greatest cinematic sins: not going far enough. The film has seemingly everything going for it. It has a good setup for the plot, an exceptional cast, and high concept artistic design....
‘Deadpool 2’ is the rare but welcome sequel that not only lives up to expectations, but does so by not completely rehashing the first film.
‘Hereditary’ is unsettling, terrifying, and brutal. Ever since its premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the buzz around the movie has been that it’s the title to beat for best horror film of 2018...
The latest addition to the ‘Ocean’s’ film franchise shows that adding a massive dose of estrogen to an established formula can ultimately produce a disengaged crime caper.
Unease with the intersection between our bodies and technology is nothing new. Going all the way back to Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ we have a strong cultural history of wanting to push the boundaries of what n...