As narrative conflicts go, Civil War shoots too many blanks to be effective.
Patel shows directorial promise, displaying a uniquely personal vision that allows Monkey Man to defy simplistic genre classifications.
Wicked Little Letters is one of those stories that would never be believable if it hadn’t actually happened.
Jonathan Demme’s 2004 take on The Manchurian Candidate has honestly aged rather well. The acting is stellar, there’s plenty of tension, and many of this update’s core ideas remain as prescient and as timely as ever.
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.