AwardsWatch - Film Reviews

Film Review: Humor and heart prevail in ‘Onward’

Dewey Singleton February 22, 2020

Onward is the perfect mix of humor and heart. It’s a tale of legacy and rediscovering the magic which binds families together. For a movie that... Read More

Film Review: ‘Color Out of Space’ – Something Nicolas this way comes

Meghan White February 22, 2020

Nicolas Cage gives another deliciously over-the-top performance in Richard Stanley’s new hallucinatory horror Based on what H.P. Lovecraft considered among his finest short stories, Color... Read More

Film Review: ‘Emma.’ Period. End of Sentence.

Jason Adams February 19, 2020

The character of Jane Austen’s Emma has always been a bit of a pain in the bum. She’s a bored rich girl who can’t stop... Read More

Film Review: ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ grabs all the gold rings

Dewey Singleton February 12, 2020

Sonic The Hedgehog opens up in theaters this weekend and has the gigantic task of escaping the doomed past of previous video game adaptations. Paramount... Read More

Film Review: There’s more love to be found in ‘To All The Boys: P.S. I Still Love You’

Dewey Singleton February 12, 2020

To All The Boys: P.S. I Still Love You perfectly captures the angst and awkwardness of young love. While To All The Boys Loved Before captured the sweet... Read More

Film Review: ‘Birds of Prey’ turns the masculine and feminine on its head

Meghan White February 9, 2020

It’s dire cultural commentary that a comic book adaptation like Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) feels revolutionary. Objectively, we’ve... Read More

Film Review: ‘Birds of Prey’ is no joke, it’s a kick-ass manifesto to an unspoken feminism

Catherine Springer February 5, 2020

Who knew that there was such a need for a sequel to Suicide Squad? The film that became a punchline and seemed to symbolize the... Read More

Film Review: ‘The Lodge’ is traumatically delicious

Jason Adams February 5, 2020

There’s an exchange in Frank Darabont’s film The Mist where two characters trapped in a supermarket at the end of the world discuss whether having faith in... Read More

Sundance Review: Lee Isaac Chung’s ‘Minari’ is a poetic and heartfelt masterwork

Clint Worthington February 1, 2020

One of the joys of minari, mischievous grandmother Soonja (Yuh-Jung Youn) tells her equally impish 7-year-old grandson David (Alan Kim), is that the Korean herb... Read More

Sundance Review: Despite good performances ‘The Glorias’ can’t liberate itself from convention

Joshua Encinias January 30, 2020

The Glorias, directed by Julie Taymor based on the book “My Life on the Road” by Gloria Steinem, shows the confluence of “Glorias” who powered... Read More

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