A Wrinkle in Time has many touching and beautiful moments, in large part due to the incredible and relatable performance of its young star. However, the heavy-handed direction and sugary-sweet story may wear on adults used to more nuanced fare.
You can’t fault EVERY DAY for a lack of ambition – however, the film feels watered down by a breezy running time that doesn’t allow for a deeper exploration of the body swap conceit.
Demon House has a crawling sense of escalating paranoia, with witness accounts and medical testimonials, Zak Bagans presents a documentary that will have you believing this just might have happened.
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson is a rewarding experience and a tragic story filled with heartbreaking real-life characters, but their own humor and joy helps to balance out the very grim tidings.
Amy Adrion’s must-see documentary HALF THE PICTURE features many prominent women filmmakers who open up about their experiences with discrimination in Hollywood.
Disguised simply as a small-scale action horror film, Mohawk becomes a good focal point for something much larger than itself, which enables its flaws to be more readily overlooked.
Death Wish is a victim of poor timing due to current public sentiment in regards to guns and violence, but its generic revenge story and wasted cast don’t much help matters either.
Loaded with a star-studded cast, Nostalgia is an emotional trip down memory lane. It’s a poetic, yet melancholy look into the transitions of life and how it affects those around us.
They Remain lives in the shadows of many similar films that came before it, but it’s not quite as captivating as any of those due to gimmicky cinematography and a story without much momentum.
A classic horror film of Haitian voodoo and zombies, The Serpent and the Rainbow continues to scare and delight viewers with its historical relevance and impressive details.
Despite a premise which would beckon horror fans and cinephiles alike, Death House doesn’t deliver. Its many references and horror icons don’t contribute much to a story that is far too caught up in itself to be any fun.
Annihilation is best viewed as a trip deep into an otherworldly house of horrors, offering a deliberately illogical twist on the formula of horror movie storytelling.
Aimed squarely at Christian audiences looking for inspirational family entertainment, Samson is a preachy and plodding drama that’s light on excitement, action or any real sense of spirituality.
Game Night is a visually memorable comedy, standing out by masterfully blending the absurdity of its comedy and the realistic problems of its central characters.
Predictable and boring, Leatherface fails to give viewers and fans of the franchise a gripping, riveting, startling movie on how a serial killer family is born.