A mixed bag, but there are definitely moments where the performances, direction and photography sync up for an effectively moody atmosphere.

Bold, indulgent, polarizing, poetic, rapturous and artfully made but also an epic-length torment, like the secular The Passion Of The Christ.

The diffuse storytelling somewhat dilutes the film's themes but Viola Davis, a Terence Blanchard score and an inherently interesting milieu are all good reasons to see it.

A triumphant re-thinking of the Fletch franchise with a flat-out great script, confident direction and a stand-out star performance.

The weakest of the three. It fails at taking its own emotional logic that seriously; the drama is embarrassingly schmaltzy and the humor hacky. Feels like a parody of itself.

A melancholic and poetic queer romance that teases out some interesting ambiguities about the nature of the story's relationship.

There's an overabundance of unnecessary concessions to modern taste in this effects-driven, CGI-animated remake, but it moves along pretty nicely—and they haven't broken it.

Lightweight, flimsy and sitcomedic in the style of The Office, but its cast of funny people being funny is enough for a recommendation.

Hugh Bonneville as a posh but psychotic killer with serious daddy issues. So-so script but enjoyable enough as a pulse-pounding thriller.

Ozon's gender reversal of Fassbinder's The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant straddles camp, but it's colorful and makes a bit more of the obsessive relationship between artist & muse.

A dated and morally dubious propaganda film.

Well shot, but it doesn’t really go anywhere interesting—a wafer-thin plot, simplistic, and repetitive. It’s all theatrics and no theater.

A lot of this feels a bit like therapy in front of the camera,  but the subject matter is so compelling that, if approached from an emotional rather than intellectual standpoint, it definitely holds one’s interest.

Comes on like an old Hammer horror picture, but then becomes full of old-hat psychological horror theatrics lacking a single original or interesting idea or performance.

A very strange mix of family sitcom and R-rated bro-down buddy comedy. A witless string of dumb comic set pieces and an unfunny slog.

A tense and compelling World War II thriller and a leisurely shoot-‘em-up made all the more unsettling by its deliberate pace, interesting ideas and timely sociopolitical parallels.

Highsmith's prose, alternately earthy and soaring, best reveals the breadth of her personality, but the perspectives of her lovers humanize her to a more relatable degree...

Worth seeing through to the bitter end...finds its soul when Ebo allows the satire to curdle into tragedy and the very real pain of its characters. 

A stealth epic, framing an urban jungle and making its own kind of contemporary history by pairing acting giants Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in what has arguably become the preeminent cops-and-robbers movie.

A chintzy, corny, cheesy men-with-guns movie peppered with low-wattage humor and a lot of action movie cliches.

Ambition...effort...well-intentioned...some genuinely affecting grace notes on occasion, but it's also shameless.

Despite its extremely messy story, if looked at as a '50s B-movie matinee, it's not too bad.

The picture's 'soul'...is kindred to the anarchic underground comics its characters worship and long to create...Appropriately for a film about an 18-year-old, Funny Pages invites optimism and discomfort into a cold embrace.

Serves as a low-key character study and an actor’s showcase for John Boyega.

To put it simply, The Last Journey has enjoyable trappings but doesn't amount to much.

In the efficient and consistently engrossing 84 minutes of The Territory...Alex Pritz illuminates the terrible plight of Brazil's Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people, a worrisome situation with implications for all of humanity.

Shot in twenty-seven countries over three years using cutting-edge technologies, BBC One's The Green Planet focuses on plants, their livelihood amidst growing climate challenges, and their relationships with other species...

A legit comeback for Raimi...He meets the moment with the good ol' Raimi dynamism and winking movie-love savvy.

An endangered species—an indie comedy with an original idea, which arrives at an extremely funny comic climax. Great Pino Donaggio score.

A solid western in its own right and an important film in African American cinema, with a healthy blend of western action, comedy and social commentary drama.

Basically a less creative and less idiosyncratic Spy Kids produced by Jerry Bruckheimer (that might tell you something).

The characters and their interdynamics simply aren't that interesting during the rescue, so somehow it all comes off as dull. But there is Watts (and who wouldn't follow her anywhere?)

The real draw here is actually the photography by Oscar-winning cinematographer Philippe Rousselot.

Unpretentious, light, and amusing with a horror-action kick. Ultra violent, but does an enjoyable job of vampire-hunting and vampire-society worldbuilding.

One of the best examples of poetic realism, which was Marcel Carne's stock-in-trade. A satisfying blend of comedy, drama and romantic melodrama.

A prequel to 2009's Orphan, but despite a plot twist that perks up the story a bit, it's pretty much more of the same.

It's fine...the plot is kinda clunky, but it's well cast.

You can pretty much forget about it.

Feels longer than six seasons of Lost with only a sliver of that 'Mystery Box' show's cohesiveness. The actors gamely sally forth but they, like us, are getting nowhere.

Largely feels cut from the cloth of the neorealists...[a] compelling dramatization of the strain the American economy puts on the indebted class of gig workers, and the lengths people may find themselves going to in the face of dwindling options.

A ludicrous action fantasy full to bursting with lunkheaded macho banter and every cliche in the cat-and-mouse cyber-thriller handbook.

Typifies middling Hollywood schlock: a pulpy, sleazy sci-fi/horror creature feature destined to cycle endlessly through cable airings and, now, to pad out streaming platforms.

The film's bold and uncompromising treatment of the frustrated modern man seeking—and perhaps finding—his last resort in gun violence has unfortunately only grown in relevance.

Ted Tetzlaff’s snappy thriller—adapted from the Cornell Woolrich short story “The Boy Cried Wolf”—straddles the rarely mapped line between Aesop’s Fable and film noir. 

A musical for kids done very much in the style of Disney Channel Original Movies. A mixed bag, mostly harmless with impressive opening and climactic musical numbers.

This is really Dale Dickey's movie. A real sleeper made with a light touch and a warm heart.

This true story of a fraudster's been fictionalized into a victim-turned-avenger feminist triumph. It works due to the anti-chemistry of its two leads.

Three young women navigate sex, romance, and the fear of commitment, rejection and failure in this well-acted Sundance Film Festival prize winner about the tumultuous emotional impulses of young adulthood.

A successful nail biter and arm rest gripper. Good at building tension, built for maximum suspense, and it's very well filmed and composited.

A Stand By Me for girls, a kid detective story, a low key hang out movie spotlighting female friendship, and a slight but sweet requiem for childhood.