Review: The Meg
One doesn't go in to The Meg, the film adaptation of Steve Alten's 1997 best-selling novel, expecting escapist fare on the level of...
Short Takes: The Story of 90 Coins
Recipient of 60+ accolades from international film festivals, including Best Foreign Short & Best Actress at Los Angeles Independent Film...
Review: First Reformed
"This journal brings me no peace. Self-pity, nothing more," Reverend Toller (Ethan Hawke) writes in writer-director Paul Schrader's bleak...
Review: The Second
If the writer's edict is to "write what you know," then The Writer (Rachael Blake) in the Australian mystery drama, The Second, may have...
Review: The Darkest Minds
Even before its first frame, The Darkest Minds is already a chore. Yet another in the seemingly never-ending factory line of dark teen...
Review: Christopher Robin
Even without coming on the heels of Goodbye Christopher Robin, which recounted the origins of the beloved Winnie the Pooh and his friends...
Review: Love After Love
Melding the roiling intimacy of John Cassavetes with the intense emotionalism of Ingmar Bergman may seem an experiment in bleakness for...
Review: On Chesil Beach
The year is 1962, the setting a Georgian hotel beside Dorset's Chesil Beach. Post-war repression has yet to fully bloom into the sexual...
Review: Cold Skin
Based on the 2002 novel by Albert Sánchez Piñol, Cold Skin begins as a man arrives on a remote island, ready to take his year-long duty...
Review: Extinction
Timing is everything. Take the twist in Extinction, which comes an hour after the film starts and which is meant to have viewers rethink...
