‘Jigsaw’ Review: See Saw, See Saw Run
Seven years after the supposed Final Chapter (in 3D, member that?), the world’s most industrious slasher villain is apparently back. It shouldn’t be too much of a surprise that ‘Saw’ eventually returned. Af...
Seven years after the supposed Final Chapter (in 3D, member that?), the world’s most industrious slasher villain is apparently back. It shouldn’t be too much of a surprise that ‘Saw’ eventually returned. Af...
If I were to whip up a list of the directors I expected to make movies for children in 2017, Todd Haynes’ name would be somewhere near the bottom. The art house darling behind ‘Safe’, ‘Carol’ and R...
‘American Sniper’ screenwriter John Hall makes his directorial debut with strikingly similar material. Fortunately, his follow-up focuses on the best aspects of that troubled war epic. Gone are the disturbingly narrow-...
You’d think that the directorial debut of motion-capture acting pioneer Andy Serkis would be some sort of technical marvel, especially given that it’s produced by his own studio. Instead, Serkis directed ‘Breathe...
Sometimes a group of talented people with the best intentions get together and make a failure. Such is the case for ‘Suburbicon’, a film written by the Coen brothers, directed by George Clooney, and starring Matt Damon...
Here’s a sentence that will surprise no one: That movie where Gerard Butler fights a super storm sucks. The film didn’t screen for critics and likely won’t be discussed as the disaster that it is since it came ou...
After a string of heavy social issue documentaries, director Rory Kennedy takes a breather with a doc about surf legend Laird Hamilton. While the subject matter is far lighter and less vital than Abu Ghraib or Vietnam, Kennedy emb...
There’s a fine line between a contemporary movie harkening back to old-fashioned entertainment and feeling dated. ‘Only the Brave’ walks that tightrope and slips over to the latter side more often than not.
‘The Snowman’ is filled with promise that it never delivers. Based on the obscenely popular novels by Joe Nesbø, directed by Tomas Alfredson (‘Let the Right One In’), and starring Michael Fassbender, the fi...
‘Brawl in Cell Block 99’ is the type of film that thoughtful consumers of nasty entertainment treasure. It’s a genre movie that never shies away from its most exploitative elements, instead embracing them in ways...
All horror franchises that last long enough tend to deliver diminishing returns to the point of pure garbage. ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ has had a particularly painful road. Aside from the original masterpiece, goof...
Following up his attention-grabbing, iPhone-shot ‘Tangerine’, writer/director Sean Baker once again turns his knowing eyes to a uniquely colorful group of outsiders on the fringes of society. This time, he has a budget...