Review: Destroyer
"I don't care what happens to me," LAPD detective Erin Bell says at one point in Destroyer and, indeed, she looks and sounds long past...
Review: War Machine
War Machine appears designed to be both a political satire and a bromantic workplace comedy but its narrative aimlessness and uncertainty...
Review: Aftermath
It's not only the miscasting of Arnold Schwarzenegger that plagues the Darren Aronofsky-produced, Javier Gullón-scripted, and Elliott...
Review: Sleepless
Even if one wasn't aware that Sleepless is an American remake of a 2011 French film named Sleepless Night (Nuit blanche), it wouldn't...
Review: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Evil cannot be defeated without collateral damage. The damage may be physical, as in the absurdly glutinous destruction on display in the...
Review: Lamb
A richly rewarding film with a provocative central relationship, Lamb quickly establishes the fractured lives of its two main characters....
Review: Our Brand is Crisis
All the rabid dogs in the world could not inject any bite in Our Brand is Crisis, David Gordon Green's would-be political satire that...
Review: Black Sea
Ex-Navy captain Robinson (Jude Law) is bitter and disgruntled, forced on the dole by the ocean salvage corporation for whom he's...
Review: Gone Girl
Image is everything. Perception becomes reality. What do you think of a husband who gazes down on his lovely wife and wonders, "What are...
Review: The Rover
Narratively lean yet cinematographically lush, The Rover is a chamber piece set in an expansive location. This and that happens with...
