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THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY: Hitchcock's Forgotten Masterpiece of Subversive Sweetness
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY: Hitchc*ck’s Forgotten Masterpiece Of Subversive Sweetness

Alfred Hitchc*ck’s oft-forgotten The Trouble With Harry delightfully blends small-town Americana with his usual penchant for droll humor and the macabre.

WHAT’S EATING GILBERT GRAPE: Digesting The Importance Of Family

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape is a story of deep familial relationships suggesting the importance of understanding the struggles of mental health.

REDS: The Forgotten Anti-Capitalist Epic of the 1980s
REDS: The Forgotten Anti-Capitalist Epic Of The 1980s

Warren Beatty’s Reds may be the final prestige picture that ideologically represents New Hollywood. Read our retrospective review of the 1981 epic.

ROCKETMAN: A Musical In Perpetual Blastoff
ROCKETMAN: A Musical In Perpetual Blastoff

Rocketman is big screen entertainment done right, an inventive rock-opera that brims with energy and color.

PET SEMATARY: Uninspired, Middle-Of-The-Road Adaptation
PET SEMATARY: Uninspired, Middle-Of-The-Road Adaptation

The latest adaptation of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary has some interesting new ideas, but it never quite reaches liftoff.

WONDER PARK: Animation Without Wonder
WONDER PARK: Animation Without Wonder

Wonder Park should be fine family viewing, but it is lacking in terms of storytelling and the world building design.

WHAT MEN WANT: Taraji P. Henson Carries This Formulaic Comedy Further Than Expected
WHAT MEN WANT: Taraji P. Henson Carries This Formulaic Comedy Further Than Expected

Like Ocean’s Eight before it, What Men Want is proof that it takes more than genderswapping to make something old new again.

ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST: A Retrospective Look at the Classic Western After 50 Years
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST: A Retrospective Look At The Classic Western After 50 Years

Sergio Leone compiled everything great about Westerns in Once Upon a Time in the West, and created as distinctive an entry as the world had ever seen.

NOBODY'S FOOL: The Flips Side of "Pretty Woman" is a Huge Mistake
NOBODY’S FOOL: The Flips Side Of “Pretty Woman” Is A Huge Mistake

A comedy with Haddish, Sumpter and Goldberg is a nice idea, but Nobody’s Fool soon makes you realize that you have been cat-fished.

INSTANT FAMILY: Delivers Laughs, Tears & Some Tonal Whiplash
INSTANT FAMILY: Delivers Laughs, Tears & Some Tonal Whiplash

Owing mostly to the funny duo of Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne, Instant Family somewhat succeeds, though its switch to full-out drama by the end is jarring, to say the least.

OVERLORD: Zombies & Nazis & Bombs, Oh My!
OVERLORD: Zombies & Nazis & Bombs, Oh My!

Overlord is exactly what you would want and expect a movie about zombies created by Nazis to be: a deranged, disgusting delight.

The Two Jakes: One Movie Too Many?
THE TWO JAKES: One Movie Too Many?

The Two Jakes may be an inferior sequel to Chinatown, but this Jack Nicholson-directed follow up is more intriguing than its reputation suggests.