George Clooney Anchors a Superb Cast as Jay Kelly, but Doesn’t Get Much to Do Himself
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Do No Harm is a tense, tightly crafted little thriller that expertly draws audiences into the high stakes world of people who work in healthcare and how top down decisions about staffing and funding can cause catastrophic outcomes for people who are just trying to do their best and get the care they need.
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Ang Lee’s follow up to the Oscar winning Brokeback Mountain went underlooked, getting polite, yet not overly enthusiastic reviews and received zero Oscar nominations. However, I’d put it forth as one of the great films of 2007 and is more than deserving of the growing appreciation it’s received over the years; an intoxicating masterpiece of espionage and eroticism.
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The best way to describe the way I felt leaving Predator: Badlands, a new installment in the Predator franchise, was satisfaction. There is something so pleasurable in watching a movie do exactly what it needs to do, but without pandering or cutting corners.
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With a comedic tone and a political message that both felt surface level at best, I was left hoping for a tastier fortune cookie.
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In Eternity, a new romantic dramedy from director David Freyne, life, love, and death are all potent ingredients that make for a compelling plot.
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What happens when the Kong franchise bounds outside its California home and we let the Godzilla folks take the reins for a bit? The result is the recent Weird Wednesday showing of King Kong Escapes.
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Ninja Terminator tells the story of three ninjas, led by Ninja Master Harry (Richard Harrison), who pull off a heist against an all-powerful, entirely-evil, oddly-omnipresent crime empire run by ninjas.
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Exit 8 is an admirable experiment: a video game adaptation that doesn’t just replicate its source but reimagines it as a metaphor for daily life, where the routines we take for granted may be leading us deeper into a purgatory of our own making.
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The Mastermind is a welcome return to higher stakes storytelling, with surprising splashes of slapstick comedy.
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Enjoying its world premiere at the Austin Film Festival, The Boy from St. Croix is a heartfelt documentary of Hall-of-Fame professional basketball player Tim Duncan.
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Rebecca Zlotowski’s A Private Life (2025) is an enjoyable comic mystery that proves that the therapist is the last person to know what’s going on.
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Ultimately, The Unexpecteds is about people trying their best to navigate a system that is designed to make sure they never win.
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Hot, sweaty, and filled with dread, Sirāt goes there and takes you alongside it whether you wanted that or not.
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It’s interesting that we don’t really get movies about monkeys very often, let alone horror movies about how scary monkeys are.
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The Carpenter’s Son doesn’t want to be the kind of film I was expecting it to be.
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Like the other two movies in the series, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t is convoluted, preposterous, and often downright silly. In other words, it’s what basically any mainstream American caper of the last few decades has been.
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Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is back as the iconic, deeply Southern, master detective for the third installment of the Knives Out Franchise in writer/director Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man, but this time, something feels different.
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In a world where there is no such thing as job security, No Other Choice resonates as an apt satire-thriller of employment anxiety.
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The Black Phone left far more questions than answers. And given how Black Phone 2 plays out, maybe those questions should’ve stayed unresolved.
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