As narrative conflicts go, Civil War shoots too many blanks to be effective.

For those open to downbeat descents into carnage, Model House struts across the horror catwalk with cheerless confidence.

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.

There is nothing kind about writer-director Teresa Sutherland’s haunting suspense yarn Lovely, Dark, and Deep.

To say Contagion hits differently in 2024 than it did in 2011 is an obvious understatement.

“I hope that there’s a playfulness that people find in the movie, and that that at least can take them through the end of the night.”
– Tricia Cooke

What’s remarkable about Drive-Away Dolls is how it is built on a foundation of intoxicating wholesomeness. Sure, people get beaten up, shot, and even beheaded, but that never changes how agreeably charming events turn out to be.