When a widow and a divorced dad combine powers, you get the reimagining of "How I Met Your Mother" that we needed AND deserved. Everything is hyper-competent although no stunts really stuck out as bei...

Curry Barker coming out of nowhere with the Resident Evil school of camera placement, allowing the actors to react while the viewer is getting sniped off-screen by a zombie. Or in this case, a girl wh...

A lot of great creepy set pieces, sequences and ideas share screentime with stuff that feels like it doesn't belong, like the rocker guy and his dumbass friends and the meganekko and her friend shitpo...

Bakshi once again pulling no punches and we're all better for it. I'd like to call this an artifact but other than the lack of rampant gentrification it's just a whole lot of What's Old Is New Again, ...

Woof, where to begin. The first two acts are an uneven but still attention-holding thriller that feels like it's gonna culminate in some high-wire hijinks. Then the third third of the film begins and ...

As Jackie gets older, he struggles to find someone who can capture the magic he used to bring to the screen. Or maybe not. It seems like in China Jackie can't escape Ameribrained filmmaking, with rapi...

Yup. No change from the last review. The movie is competently made in most aspects but not in one critical way: It seems to have been written by an AI despite taking place in 1992. Let's review: 1) Th...

Simple caper, perhaps a bit too straightforward. If we're grading on a curve though, Welles' use of drones for some of those shots was deffo forward-looking.

Entertaining, yes. Educational, yes. Albanian, yes. Knows what it wants, goes for it and leaves everything on the cheer mat, yes. Sometimes a movie makes it look too easy

Solid caper and creative directing. Gotta love a movie that uses misdirection to keep you guessing. Also, let's face it, this movie is about how awesome working is and how stir-crazy people go when un...

The Indian Elijah Wood comes through with a well written, breezy, even funny adaptation of the hell that is college in a world where your diploma matters more than your smile. That's the kind of corny...

Should get the first thing you think of out of the way first: Not quite as good as Uncut Gems. I attribute that mostly to O'Leary being a little... too clean an actor. He doesn't fit in with everyone ...

My dislike for narration crashes into my like of movies depicting the prison that is suburbia. Sofia Coppola pushes through with a dream-like depiction of a nightmare from afar and boy are we all bett...

They pitted four accomplished black women actresses against the 2001 Miami Hurricanes of black male supporting actors (and one Daywalker). You're gonna love how they hash it out. Being middlebrow, it'...

So it is pacey. You won't be looking at your watch because it zips all over Evita's and Antonio Banderas' lives. But despite the bold move of casting fellow sexbomb Jonathan Pryce next to Madonna, thi...

Neat little caper, expertly put together to turn a double homicide into a triple tragedy, with a little laughter thrown in. Spiritually a prequel to "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown." The on...

The Japanese have an absolute knack for creating media whose theme is Adults Are Shitty. The themes are as clear as day and there's not much subtlety to what's going on. Because there's nothing subtle...

As a caper, it's p. much excellent. Everything falls into place, there's really no wasted action even in the prologue, every character is on point in their acting and dialogue, and the movie sticks to...

Hey alright! This could've gone places if the main character wasn't a drip

It's cromulent. It's... fine. I think it bullshitted with its explanation of everything and the switcheroo was called a mile away. Oh well. But I am docking it half a point for doing that 3D modeling ...

Perfectly serviceable, but it feels awfully... PG-13. A lot of bright lighting, a lot of music breaking in, you're gonna call me a Kawajiri mark but I feel like this kind of story was indeed visually ...

You can tell a lot of money went into this badboy. And you can tell that a lot of that money should have been put into a freakin' rewrite! Where to start? 1) Rintaro swerves the audience, thinking Lun...

First thing's first: It's a kids movie. If you're not a kid, you might have trouble with this one. That said, it's not a boring-ass kids movie. The Ghibli guys turned an appeal to stop destroying natu...

It should have been impossible for me to like this movie as much as I did, given Tarkovsky's slow and steady pace. That's what happened to Stalker, but this earlier flick from GT somehow feels extreme...

I'm a huge sucker for movies that reward you for paying attention. Kurosawa's son did an excellent job putting together a movie about normal people driven to homicide because of people who just won't ...

A tight 90 in the European screwball tradition. Gains half a point for having Antonio Banderas of all people invent the broccoli haircut 40 YEARS AGO

Vivien Leigh is expertly directed, expertly shot, expertly acted. And Brando pulls off being a calculating Polish guy who you think, "Yeah, he thinks a screen door on a submarine is earth-shattering t...

You can accomplish a lot with un peu. Arco is well animated (though I wish the framerate were higher), the music is OK, and Arco/Iris' story reminded me of Princess Kaguya's, albeit with a happier end...

Mel Brooks' historically accurate retelling of the Wild West has some yuks and guffaws, but nothing that had me rolling. The physical comedy actually worked better than I thought it would. Do NOT watc...

The kid is cute, yes, and the scream as oil gimmick was creative. It has a little bit of stuff for the parents which is a bit crazy because you think Billy Crystal would be better able to bring materi...

Robert Redford did not possess enough star power to uplift a story that relies on Michelle Pfeiffer going from unbelievable klutz to someone who is like, never able to stand on her two feet until afte...

Is it competently done? Yes. Andrea Arnold has a style, she sticks to it, and it's different to say the least. Cathy and Heathcliff rolling around in some lovely filth, the constant fog and mud and sh...

Yup. You want a story/character study of a guy trying to redeem himself, and his four sons who are too ennui'd and need some joie de vivre? You got it with Wes Anderson. You also got like 10 feet of t...

It's got all the building blocks of a great movie: A bit of creepiness, nonreliance on jumpscares, eerie soundtrack, a rules-based villain, a hint of People Under the Stairs high-stakes child adventur...

It's been said that this movie, where two accomplished actors ACT, demonstrates the futility of male friendship. I dunno about that, I think it's surprisingly easy to not be a consistent asshole to ev...

Decades before Zohran Mamdani, Tamil cinema envisioned a guy who had the guts to fire everyone who sucked at their job. Despite a plot that kinda goes in circles in the latter half, there are enough g...

Perfectly cromulent. Love seeing Emma Stone and another Asian actress chop it up and would've liked to see more of that. Also like the movie's pro-OTP message. Did not like the twist-off it has at the...

A simple morality tale, well told. Remarkable because in Communist Czechoslovakia, a cat that can do instant day/night cycles and reverse Predator vision is controversial but not that big a deal.

The male loneliness epidemic captured by its patient zero. Will you guffaw? Probably not. Will you smile? At this hopeful message? Absolutely. Some might disparagaingly call it a 100-minute "The Chair...

The prototype of "The Departed" is a more in-your-face and facially silly version of what Scorcese tells. However, the Asian setting (including the Buddhist parts) in a way makes this move subtler tha...

What else needs to be said? A guy screws up so bad his face becomes bluer, and then he gets close to his blue son, and then things go even wronger. Subtitles weren't needed for this one because everyt...

I'm calling this a twofer: It's a Fences because 90% of the movie is driven purely by Rose Byrne closeups, and it's a Beau is Afraid because it's like Beau is Afraid. Except good

Kubrick, once again ahead of his time, puts up a reasonably funny movie about the Enemy stealing our cum, the guy who swears he's not a Nazi, and everyone listening unconditionally to a guy who looks ...

Allusions to gang violence, psycho killers and just general bad luck plays into a portrait of a portrait-taker stuck in a world that kinda doesn't care that black men die at all. Passable, but could'v...