Six decades later, Seven Days in May remains a powerfully prescient political thriller
Love Lies Bleeding is the first truly great film of 2024.
The Lion in Winter is one of my all-time favorite historical melodramas.
Much like its predecessor, I found Dune: Part Two frequently cold and emotionally barren at the most inopportune times.
To say Contagion hits differently in 2024 than it did in 2011 is an obvious understatement.
Lights Out is a waste of time.
Out of the Darkness shines a light on modern troubles, and by dipping into the past, the film asks the audience to consider how tenuous and uncertain humanity’s future survival truly is.
I.S.S. asks several troubling and unpleasant questions, and the film refuses to make things easy on the audience by smothering them in obvious or easy answers.
Miller’s Girl frequently vacillates between being insightful and facile, many times within the same scene, and because of this, it’s incredibly difficult to generate anything more than an emotionally cursory involvement in what is going on.