Review: Born to Be Blue
A man sits in a bathtub and tries to play the trumpet, the strangled notes expressing the pained struggle of its player. An embouchure is...
Review: The Neon Demon
The Neon Demon begins with an arresting tableau of a young woman, innocence nevertheless radiating through the semi-geisha and glitter...
Review: Ghostbusters
Certainly no film in recent history has been barraged with such backlash as Paul Feig's all-female remake/reboot of Ivan Reitman's 1984...
Review: Elvis & Nixon
Perhaps one of the oddest moments in White House history occurred on December 21, 1970. That was the day the King of Rock and Roll met...
Review: Miles Ahead
Miles Ahead, a biopic of jazz giant Miles Davis that's decidedly not straight and all chaser, comes at you in free-form fragments that...
Review: The Legend of Tarzan
If nothing else, The Legend of Tarzan, the latest incarnation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' perennial title character, proves once again what...
Review: Equals
In Drake Doremus' Equals, the future is envisioned as a dystopia where feelings are suppressed and emotions are dangerous to both the...
Review: The Phenom
"I'm just an ordinary kid," Hopper Gibson (Johnny Simmons) mutters to his psychologist Dr. Mobley (Paul Giamatti). On the contrary,...
Review: Me Before You
Me Before You is essentially a remake of Pretty Woman, except the man of privilege is not only emotionally but physically disabled and...
Review: Everybody Wants Some!!
"Let the good times roll" seems to be the modus operandi for Richard Linklater's Everybody Wants Some!!, a film billed as a spiritual...
