Weekend Movies: Crazy White Female
After last week’s $100 million opening of the latest ‘Fast and Furious’ sequel, it’s surprising to see so many new movies being thrown at us this weekend. No title would go head-to-head against Vin Diesel a...
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‘The Lost City of Z’ Review: An Intimate (and Somewha
‘The Lost City of Z’ seemingly promises many things that we come to expect from summertime movie spectacle. It’s about an adventurer traveling deep into the jungle, uncovering cannibals, fighting off piranha atta...
‘The Promise’ Review: Love in a Time of Genocide
What’s the best way to explore a historical tragedy such as the Armenian genocide? Well, certainly not through a corny love triangle. That’s the sort of deeply inappropriate trivialization that Hollywood should be over...
‘Unforgettable’ Review: Just Kidding, Quite Forgettab
By the time the steamy suspense of ‘Unforgettable’ wraps up you’ll feel two things. First, you’ll feel far stupider than when you came in. Second, you’ll wonder if you watched a movie or if you bought...
‘Born in China’ Review: Animals Are Cute, Vol. 24,578
It’s hard to even know what to say about DisneyNature documentaries anymore. They have a formula: Send brilliant nature documentarians out into the field to gather extraordinary footage, then cut it down to the cutest beauty...
‘Free Fire’ Review: Claustrophobic Action Bliss
Ben Wheatley has slowly built a reputation as the most intriguing British filmmaker of his generation. Through a variety of art house genre flicks like ‘Kill List’, ‘Sightseers’ and ‘High-Rise’,...
‘Colossal’ Review: Big-Ass Monsters Within
What would happen if a drunken Anne Hathaway transposed herself into a giant kaiju in Korea every time she stumbled through her childhood playground in the early morning? It’s a question that literally no one was asking, and...
Weekend Box Office: Family First
When the original ‘Fast and Furious’ movie opened in 2001, if a fortune-teller had told me that the eighth installment of the franchise would draw the biggest worldwide opening weekend of all time, I’d have immed...
‘The Fate of the Furious’ Review: Big, Bald, Bad and
Crack a Corona, snort some NOS, and do whatever else it takes to kill some brain cells because the ‘Fast and Furious’ franchise is back! It’s been two long years since ‘Furious 7’, and thanks to that ...
‘Black Code’ Review: Hardwired Paranoia
Ever since Edward Snowden’s name entered the public consciousness, it’s been tough not to give every internet-connected device we own a side-eyed glance of uneasy fear. If you feel like advancing further down the line ...
Easter Weekend Movies: No Fate But What We Make
Each year, the tentpoles get bigger and bigger. With Vin Diesel and his crew of gearheads-turned-secret-agents back at it with a $250 million eighth installment, almost no other movies dare open against it.
‘Their Finest’ Review: Heartwarming Pap with a Twist
‘Their Finest’ represents a particular long-running strain of British filmmaking – nationalist period pieces with a touch of comedy and heaps of melodrama. It’s not a particularly high-minded or ambitious little ...