
Review: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Newt Scamander and the gang return with new characters, new beasts both great and small, and several plot strands in the admittedly...


Review: Roman J. Israel, Esq.
In the beginning of Roman J. Israel, Esq., the sophomore effort from screenwriter Dan Gilroy, the titular character is a Los Angeles...


Review: It Comes at Night
The film begins with a close-up of a man obviously riddled with a disease of some kind. His name is Bud and there is a figure beside him...


Review: Alien Covenant
What does one expect going into Alien: Covenant, the latest in the Alien franchise? If one expects a return to the glory days of the...


Review: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
A young wizard arrives in a city toting a humble leather suitcase with an unreliable lid from which many a magical creature escapes....


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: Selma
Selma is the first feature film to put the eminent pastor, activist, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. front and center...


Review: The Avengers
There have been worse films screened for critics. The Avengers, a film adaptation of the iconic 1960s British television series, is not...