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.
According to horror movie logic, there are a number of reasons why a group of presumably intelligent people would head out into the woods, voluntarily. 30 Miles from Nowhere, as the title suggests, is another one of those isolated...
The ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe has a need to keep adding new characters to stay fresh and fun. Also, considering that Avengers: Infinity War killed off roughly half the cast, heroes and humans alike, it seems like a ...
The third film in the series, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World is a strong example of not knowing when to call it quits. The movie isn’t a total waste of time or animation, but it never gives these beloved characte...
Parody is reserved for only the most dearly celebrated cultural touchstones. No rom-com cliché is left un-mocked in the peculiarly charming Isn’t It Romantic.
Revisiting a movie that’s wholly based on revisiting a day is a risky endeavor, but this repetitive repetition mostly works in Happy Death Day 2U.
James Cameron is known for creating vast alien worlds and situating fun popcorn movies within them. While Robert Rodriguez directed Cameron’s script for Alita: Battle Angel, which itself is an adaptation of the manga series ...
Creepy kids are an old, reliable trope that rarely lets horror movies down – and rightly so. Those tiny humans can be straight unsettling when they want to be. The Prodigy might seem like just another creepy kid movie, but its new...
If you aren’t prepared to laugh in death’s face, then you might want to skip the dark comedy Cold Pursuit. The higher the body count, the bigger the laughs.
Though its premise is dated and its character arcs simplistic, What Men Want pulls itself up with some good performances.
Though the seams in St. Agatha show early and are fairly obvious, there’s something to be admired in this ballsy nunsploitation horror film that doesn’t shy away from getting a little crazy from time to time.
Shudder’s Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror is an enlightening documentary that examines the role of black fandom and black filmmakers throughout the history of the horror genre.
Too often, unsuccessful movies try to be too much. They might try to be an action film and a romance and a crime thriller and a political drama all at once, and this dilutes the end result. Miss Bala is the rare film that doesn...