Film Reviews

Film Review: Despite some high notes, ‘Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga’ feels like an uninspired cover

Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams get Björked Credit (John Wilson / Netflix) Will Ferrell has made a career of spoofing… Read More

June 24, 2020

Film Review: Jon Stewart’s spoof of political elites is simply ‘Irresistible’

Rose Byrne and Steve Carell are IRRESISTIBLE (Daniel McFadden / Focus Features) Jon Stewart’s (Rose Water, The Daily Show) new… Read More

June 22, 2020

Film Review: ‘Da 5 Bloods’ asks ‘Where are all the movies about Black war heroes?’

DA 5 BLOODS (L to R) JONATHAN MAJORS as DAVID , ISIAH WHITLOCK JR. as MELVIN , NORM LEWIS as… Read More

June 12, 2020

Film Review: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau trades armor for dad sweaters in ‘Exit Plan’

(Andreas Schlieter / Screen Media) Nikolaj Coster-Waldau stumbles in one of his first post-Game of Thrones projects but at least… Read More

June 12, 2020

Film Review: ‘You Don’t Nomi’

From the Peaches Christ annual live production of Showgirls, featured in YOU DON'T NOMI (Peaches Christ/Tribeca Film Festival) I refuse… Read More

June 9, 2020

Film Review: Pete Davidson is a revelation in ‘The King of Staten Island’

Pete Davidson with Alexis Rae Forlenza and Luke David Blumm in THE KING OF STATEN ISLAND (Mary Cybulski / Universal… Read More

June 8, 2020

Film Review: ‘The Vast of Night’ is out of this world

Sierra McCormick in The Vast of Night (courtesy of Amazon Studios) Cayuga, New Mexico is a small ass town, and… Read More

June 4, 2020

Film Review: ‘Capone’ is a flaming pile of shit

Burn, baby, burn: Tom Hardy as Al Capone in Josh Trank's CAPONE (Vertical Entertainment) Outside of Shakespeare, there are three… Read More

May 11, 2020

Film Review: ‘Driveways,’ starring Hong Chau and Brian Dennehy

Courtesy of FilmRise Now that I live in New York the suburban and small town experience of "the driveway" feels… Read More

May 7, 2020

Film Review: Adèle Haenel and Jean Dujardin in ‘Deerskin’

(Greenwich Entertainment) It begins with the kernel of an idea. Like literally let us say for our argument's sake an… Read More

April 30, 2020

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