‘Mr. Right’ Review: Violently Romantic
‘Mr. Right’ is no masterpiece, but it’s certainly a hell of a lot of fun and that’s all that it really needed to be. Blindingly bright, gushingly romantic, wilfully silly, and pulse-raisingly action packed,...
‘Mr. Right’ is no masterpiece, but it’s certainly a hell of a lot of fun and that’s all that it really needed to be. Blindingly bright, gushingly romantic, wilfully silly, and pulse-raisingly action packed,...
It’s odd that the ‘X-Men’ series is by far the longest-running film franchise of the 2000s comic book blockbuster boom and yet it’s also somehow an also-ran in the superhero race. Bryan Singer technically k...
‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’ is a nice movie. It’s a sweet movie. It’s an inspiring movie. It’s the sort of thing that you can take your parents to. While you’ll likely never talk or even think a...
Comedy sequels generally suck. We all know this. So it’s a pleasant surprise to say that ‘Neighbors 2’ doesn’t. It repeats the trick of the first movie by being better than anyone had any right to expect.
When ‘The Angry Birds Movie’ was announced, the world reacted with a resounding “WHY?!!” I was one of them. It made no sense to me. Now that I’ve seen the film, the question remains unanswered.
Pitched somewhere between the yellow hungover haze of 1970s dirtbag character studies and the wisecracking violent slapstick of 1980s buddy pictures, ‘The Nice Guys’ doubles down on retro entertainment. “Entertai...
J.G. Ballard’s disturbing dystopic novel ‘High-Rise’ almost made it to the screen a few times since the cult favorite hit stands in the 1970s. Despite having filmmakers like Nicolas Roeg behind the project, nothi...
‘How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town’ really lays all of its cards on the table with the title. Yes, it’s a sex comedy and there will be discussions of sex and naughty bits, frequently even for the sake of dirty ...
Jacques Audiard’s 2009 feature ‘A Prophet‘ struck a perfect balance between his art house and grindhouse influences. The film mixed subtle drama and political issues with lurid genre thrills and breakneck explosi...
On a certain level, ‘Money Monster’ is a high-concept thriller like Hollywood used to make all the time. You know the type – take an easily marketable premise that can be condensed into a trailer (or even better, a pos...
A few years ago, who would have ever guessed that Ralph Fiennes could be considered a brilliant comedic performer? Yet here we are after ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ and Fiennes has delivered his second hilarious perform...
Writer/director Alice Winocour’s ‘Disorder’ is definitely one of those movies that falls into the style-over-substance camp. The film is beautifully made and cleverly constructed. As a piece of atmospheric storyt...