Review: The Lion King
Every film is an exercise in manipulation, its success primarily dependent on how deftly emotional strings are pulled and how one makes...
Review: Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, an offshoot of the mega-successful franchise, is a big, shiny and expensive toy. It's the kind of...
Review: The Red Sea Diving Resort
The key to Chris Evans' appeal, apart from his obvious good looks and physique, is a cocksure yet calmly commanding composure that no one...
Review: Anna
Female empowerment and female objectification have always gone hand in hand in Luc Besson's films. This has always been a strangely...
Review: Ma
Ma, as its title may suggest, is not about a maternal figure. She may seem that way since she's played by Octavia Spencer, who is a...
Review: Point Blank
Based on the 2010 French action thriller, À bout portant, Point Blank (in no way to be confused with the 1967 John Boorman classic) is a...
Review: Lying and Stealing
Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief. Grant and Audrey Hepburn in Charade. Hepburn and Peter O'Toole in How to Steal a Million....
Review: Yesterday
What if you woke up one day and you were the only one who knew that The Beatles ever existed? What would life be like? How would the past...
Review: Teen Spirit
Style and likability can often go a long way, which is why it's relatively easy to give Teen Spirit, actor Max Minghella's directorial...
Review: Ophelia
"You may think you know my story," the titular character notes at the start of Ophelia, a reshaping of Shakespeare's classic Hamlet in...
