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Nightmare Alley is a tense thriller that will be sure to please audiences if they can get past the film’s length, but it still had potential to be more.
The Power of the Dog is a haunting, powerful character study by Jane Campion, amongst the best films of the year.
As it is, Cry Macho is the type of story that Eastwood has both told and portrayed better in the past.
The Horrific Inguiry column takes a look at the Universal Monster film Frankenstein (1931) and its legacy within film history.
In context to its insufferably self-congratulatory source, Hillbilly Elegy might be the least-bad adaptation one could hope for, for whatever that’s worth.
This adaptation of The Call of the Wild doesn’t quite have the same impact as Jack London’s bold portrayal of nature versus man. But it’s hard to decry it all the same.
Earthquake Bird is likely to be but a blip in the filmography of both its stars and director.
Doctor Sleep may not be the most satisfying conclusion to both the book and film version of The Shining, yet it is still an engaging film in its own right.
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The latest adaptation of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary has some interesting new ideas, but it never quite reaches liftoff.
There are successful films buried within Bird Box, but it refuses to build any identity as a film beyond its concept.
Mowgli: King of the Jungle doesn’t impart the sort of excitement you might hope from the newest entry, but it does have a resonance that many of its predecessors didn’t.
Wildlife, an intimate period piece, is an assured directorial debut driven by three stellar performances.
Maze Runner: The Death Cure wraps up the series nicely, and despite any plotholes, it doesn’t completely fall apart. With this genre producing so many duds in recent years, there are worse concepts to spend your time enduring.
Though containing some elegant set design and impressive cinematography, Murder on the Orient Express can’t quite intrigue you to the potential that it could’ve, due to underdeveloped characters and an anticlimactic final reveal.