Film Reviews

‘Barbie’ Review: Greta Gerwig’s Comedic Candy-Coated Fantasia Doubles as an Existential Epic About Being Alive

There is always an age when children wonder whether or not they’re a little too old to play with Barbies.… Read More

July 18, 2023

‘The Miracle Club’ Review: Time Heals All Wounds in a Charming, Clunky Tale of Grief and Forgiveness

A certain sense of joy comes from watching veteran actresses play characters who embark on a journey to a bucket… Read More

July 10, 2023

‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ Review: Tom Cruise is Back to Save Summer Once Again and Rage Against the (AI) Machine

For close to thirty years, audiences have watched as IMF agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) has accepted the most dangerous,… Read More

July 5, 2023

‘Extraction 2’ review: Chris Chris Bang Bang

Somewhere in between the balletic symphony of violence that is the John Wick franchise and the grounded brute force of… Read More

June 15, 2023

‘Playland’ review: A transfixing genre-bender about Boston’s oldest gay bar where the style is the substance | Tribeca

It might just be the time of day that I’ve gone to my local gay bar, but it feels almost… Read More

June 14, 2023

‘The Line’ review: Interesting ideas are quickly hazed in Ethan Berger’s run-of-the-mill cautionary tale about fraternity life | Tribeca

Fraternities exist to offer people a sense of community, but they can also take much more than they give. Well-documented… Read More

June 13, 2023

‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ review: Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback breathe new life into the robot-loving franchise

The Transformers live-action franchise has an interesting place in the current mix of over-saturated sequels, reboots and superhero films in… Read More

June 7, 2023

‘The Flash’ review: Michael Keaton’s Batman shines in a bland and disconnected multiverse

We’re in our multiverse era and it is fitting that The Flash, a film dealing in divergent paths and multiverses… Read More

June 6, 2023

‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ review: The shape-shifting sequel pulls you into its wondrous web

Let's do things differently this time. It's a line spoken by the punk little drummer girl of a Spider-Woman, Gwen… Read More

May 31, 2023

‘Elemental’ review: Pixar’s chemical romance simmers with creative spark in a tale as old as time | Cannes

And so we say au revoir to another Cannes Film Festival. The closing film of the prestigious festival was the… Read More

May 29, 2023

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