‘Hostiles’ Review: A Grim Oater
‘Hostiles’ is the first official Western by writer/director Scott Cooper, whose previous movies (‘Crazy Heart’, ‘Out of the Furnace’) have essentially been Westerns minus the period trappings. U...
‘Hostiles’ is the first official Western by writer/director Scott Cooper, whose previous movies (‘Crazy Heart’, ‘Out of the Furnace’) have essentially been Westerns minus the period trappings. U...
There are some truly wonderful things in ‘Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool’, chief among them being Annette Bening’s beautifully measured and heart-wrenching performance. Unfortunately, the movie suffers f...
If there’s any sort of message to be taken from director Dmitrii Kalashnikov’s utterly unique documentary ‘The Road Movie’, it’s that life is lived in constant expectation of disaster. (Well, that and...
‘Den of Thieves’ may not be the worst heist movie ever made, but it sure feels like it at times. The genre should be rooted in great writing, requiring clockwork precision and structure to satisfy. That’s not gen...
Given the timing and subject matter, ‘The Final Year’ had the potential to be a historic documentary with unprecedented political access. While still an interesting movie, it’s a little too obviously vetted by al...
‘American Sniper’ wasn’t a film that I was fond of at the time, but its legacy is something that I particularly dislike. Thanks to the success of Clint Eastwood’s rousing “kill all the evil brown peop...
It wasn’t that long ago that we finally celebrated the end of Nicholas Sparks’ reign of terror. Tragically, his spirit lives on. In ‘Forever My Girl’ we now have an unofficial Nicholas Sparks stink pile. Th...
A surprise winner of the Best Foreign Language Film trophy at the Golden Globes, ‘In the Fade’ is not a particularly easy or inspiring movie that one might expect to triumph at that ceremony. Harsh and even cruel to au...
‘Proud Mary’ tries to position itself as an homage to the empowered and insane 1970s Blaxploitation genre, mixed in with some contemporary female-driven actioners like ‘Atomic Blonde’. That’s somethin...
Many of the best documentaries are true-life dramas that the filmmakers never would have predicted would unfold when they began production. They’re just lucky enough to be in the right place in the right time. Alon and Shaul...
You wouldn’t think it was possible to make a movie purely about mountains, and you especially wouldn’t think it was possible for that movie to be dogged down by the pretentions of the person who made it. Nonetheless, t...
2014’s ‘Paddington’ was a little miracle of a movie. Contemporary filmmakers were able to take Michael Bond’s dated and almost impossibly earnest creation and make it work for modern audiences thanks to jus...