AwardsWatch - Film Reviews

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

Jason Adams June 12, 2020

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau stumbles in one of his first post-Game of Thrones projects but at least he looks good doing it If ever we’ve had a... Read More

Film Review: ‘You Don’t Nomi’

Jason Adams June 9, 2020

I refuse to do a search because I’m afraid what it would tell me about how repetitive I get here on this website, but I’d... Read More

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

Dewey Singleton June 8, 2020

The King of Staten Island is one of the best and most authentic films of 2020. While some might attribute this to the narrative being 75%... Read More

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

Jason Adams June 4, 2020

Cayuga, New Mexico is a small ass town, and you can tell it because the camera doesn’t blink as it seems to run the full... Read More

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

Joshua Encinias May 11, 2020

Outside of Shakespeare, there are three recurring characters in the history of cinema: Australia’s Ned Kelly, America’s Al Capone and world cinema’s auteurs. In the... Read More

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

Jason Adams May 7, 2020

Now that I live in New York the suburban and small town experience of “the driveway” feels somewhat lost to me — we’ve got our... Read More

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

Jason Adams April 30, 2020

It begins with the kernel of an idea. Like literally let us say for our argument’s sake an actual kernel. A popcorn kernel. What if,... Read More

Film Review: ‘Pray Away’ cements itself as a definitive documentary on conversion therapy

Amelia Merrill April 29, 2020

Films about conversion therapy and its survivors have been popular in recent years: 2018 brought both Desiree Akhavan’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post, where a... Read More

Film Review: ‘Extraction’ is a blockbuster of a toothache

Catherine Springer April 25, 2020

We are starved for new movies right now, so a Netflix action movie starring Chris Hemsworth would seem like the perfect medicine for a world... Read More