‘The Death of Robin Hood’ Review: Gritty Take on the Folk Legend Takes Rich Text and Makes it Poor [C-]
The opening minutes of 1938’s The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn as the folk legend, show him striding into the banquet hall of... Read More
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‘Masters of the Universe’ Review: Travis Knight’s He-Man Reboot is the Ideal Version of a Movie Made to Sell Toys [B-]
Some film franchises are sustained by merchandise sales tied to the movie. Pixar’s Cars remains a wildly popular toy franchise for children, despite the now... Read More
‘Passenger’ Review: André Øvredal’s Van Life Haunted House Movie Does Exactly What You Expect and Maybe That’s All It Needs To Do [C+]
Sometimes it’s nice to show up at the cinema for a genre programmer that gives you exactly what you expect — a polished studio horror... Read More
‘Romería’ Review: Carla Simón’s Restrained Coming-of-Age Tale Opens Up the Doors of History and Cinema [B+] Atlanta Film Festival
It’s July 2004 on the sunny Atlantic coast of Spain, in the city of Vigo, Galicia, the gateway to the Cíes Islands. Eighteen-year-old Marina (Llúcia... Read More
‘Idiots’ Review: Dave Franco and O’Shea Jackson Jr. Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore [B] Atlanta Film Festival
It doesn’t matter whether you call writer-director Macon Blair’s raucous new comedy by its festival-circuit title, The Shitheads, or its cleaner, more marketable new name,... Read More
‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Review: The Iconic Platforming Plumber is Asphyxiated in an Intergalactic IP Spree [C-]
There’s a sense of resignation that comes with watching The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. To see the sequel to Illumination’s 2023 mega-hit adaptation of Nintendo’s... Read More
SXSW 2026 Reviews: ‘Sender,’ ‘The Saviors,’ ‘Hokum’ Highlight the Stars of ‘Severance’
A clear theme emerged out of a few movies from this year’s SXSW film line-up: Severance. Specifically, Britt Lower and Adam Scott, who topline the... Read More
‘Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’ Review: BenDavid Grabinski Asks ‘What if Wong Kar-Wai Made a Gangster Love Triangle Sci-Fi Action Buddy Comedy’? [A-] SXSW
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice is an increasingly rare variety of film, the kind that movie fans keep clamoring for studios to finance... Read More
‘I Love Boosters’ Review: Boots Riley’s Dressed to Excess Cartoon Revolution is Too Much and Not Enough [B-] SXSW
There’s often a romanticization of “breaking the rules” in filmmaking. It’s laudable when filmmakers color outside the lines and refuse to conform to typical standards... Read More
‘Project Hail Mary’ Review: Ryan Gosling is Stuck Between a Rocky and a Hard Place in Crowdpleasing Sci-Fi Buddy Movie Adventure [A-]
Hollywood hasn’t had a creative muse like Andy Weir in quite some time. Though not nearly as prolific, his combination of hard-science technical detailing imprinted... Read More
‘The Death of Robin Hood’ Review: Gritty Take on the Folk Legend Takes Rich Text and Makes it Poor [C-] 
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