Film Reviews

‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ review: Rose-colored to a fault, but with its queer heart firmly in the right place

There’s an atypical lead at the center of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie. A reed-thin teenage boy with platinum blonde hair… Read More

August 30, 2021

‘He’s All That’ review: Addison Rae’s gender-swapped flop pales in comparison to the original

With YouTubers like Flula Borg, Lily Singh, and Anna Akana able to successfully parlay internet stardom into a career in… Read More

August 27, 2021

‘Candyman’ review: Nia DaCosta’s entertaining exploration of Black mythology ends up a little bittersweet

Trauma in any form is devastating to the human psyche. It can take years, an entire lifetime to process and… Read More

August 26, 2021

‘The Night House’ review: Rebecca Hall is tremendous in David Bruckner’s tense, twisty horror thriller

When will the world finally wake up and recognize the wondrous talents of Rebecca Hall? Not only has the actress… Read More

August 19, 2021

‘Respect’ review: Jennifer Hudson honors Aretha Franklin and belts out another Oscar-worthy performance

Liesl Tommy’s Respect opens in Detroit, in the home where Aretha Franklin (1942-2018) lived for much of her childhood. It is 1952,… Read More

August 8, 2021

‘Free Guy’ review: Ryan Reynolds is one ready player but video game film treads overly familiar territory

The Deadpool star brings his deadpan shtick but is often overshadowed by his winning co-stars Leave it to Disney to… Read More

August 5, 2021

‘The Suicide Squad’ review: A gory, gut-punching (and eating), magnificent rollercoaster of madness

The opening sequence of James Gunn's new film, The Suicide Squad, immediately seizes the audience's attention. The Guardians of the Galaxy director skips the usually… Read More

August 4, 2021

‘Vivo’ review: A pleasant, if conventional, musical comedy should satisfy families

While Lin-Manuel Miranda missed out on his chance to EGOT five years ago (after Moana’s “How Far I’ll Go” lost… Read More

July 29, 2021

‘Stillwater’ review: Tom McCarthy’s latest is a harrowing if uneven drama with Matt Damon’s best performance in years

Unless you were living under a rock, it was hard to forget about the Amanda Knox case. A story in… Read More

July 28, 2021

Retrospective: 20 years later, Julie Andrews and Anne Hathaway remain the brightest crown jewels of ‘The Princess Diaries’

“Amelia Mignonette Thermopolis Renaldi. Princess. Of. Genovia.” Give a woman of a certain age a microphone (and several cocktails—guilty) and… Read More

July 28, 2021

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