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Instead of a feast of physical and psychological crumbling, Gold feels like just an appetizer only touching on the dangers of the desert, the consequences of greed and the fear of possible hallucinations.

A movie can still be a good one if it doesn't have much originality. It just won't be remembered for very long.

The film presents a darker side to Elvis, juxtaposing nefarious ideas to make money against the glamour of fame.

You've heard the phrase less is more, haven't you? Well Jurassic World: Dominion has never heard of it, for it throws everything (including the kitchen sink) down your throat in an effort to be a multi-faceted spectacle.

Emergency feels like one part Superbad (2007) and one part Queen & Slim (2019) offering topical social commentary on racial anxieties in a specifically youthful world.

Is Men supposed to be an indictment of male aggression and entitlement told through naturalism? Is it a science-fiction story of how a tragedy haunts you through unknown forces? Every viewer will need to decide for themselves.

Experimenting with a non-narrative film structure and theoretical subject matter is boldly exciting. But does it have to be so difficult to understand?

A revenge-centered Viking life is inherently brutal, but the fighting and killing is so bloody and embellished that the film becomes a gratuitous orgy of masculine fantasy instead of the darkly psychological epic it tries to be.

Everything Everywhere All at Once is a perplexing and stirring tale of one woman's journey of identity.

Recently we've seen a number of new films proudly devoted to boring portrayals of masculinity in their most predictable and stereotypical forms. At least All the Old Knives tries to offer a portrayal of masculinity that's more intelligent and thoughtful.

The Algerian-born designer Yves Saint Laurent once said, "Fashions fade, but style is eternal." And when talking about film, few directors have a style as distinct and as magical as Wes Anderson.

Last Night in Soho is a psychological suspense film centered on young cheerful Eloise, played by an innocent Thomasin McKenzie (Jojo Rabbit, 2019), who moves from a remote England town to current day London for university. Through her mysterious gift for visions, and her one-bedroom apartment, Eloise is transported every night to the 1960s living the life of an aspiring singer who encounters preda...

Frank Herbert wrote the novel Dune and had it published in 1965. It became a famous science-fiction story and has been adapted for the screen twice; first as a feature film in 1984 and then as a TV miniseries in 2000. This third adaptation of Dune, from French Canadian director Denis Villeneuve (Sicario, 2015), is an adventurous science-fiction spectacle showing fully realized alien worlds that co...

Since No Time to Die is the 26th James Bond film released, it's probably not a wise idea expecting this film to reinvent the wheel of this action sub-genre adapted from the characters created in Ian Fleming's novels. Viewers know this wheel and can happily identify the spokes comprising the wheel. Some of the more obvious spokes of the James Bond films are beautifully seductive women, shown here w...

Oscar-nominated director and writer Paul Schrader (First Reformed, 2017) loves telling stories of misfortune that happen to specifically unglamorous people largely abandoned by the world. (Paul Schrader wrote the enduring and provocative screenplays for both Taxi Driver and The Last Temptation of Christ.) In The Card Counter, a modern-day tragedy of exile and redemption shows viewers that some peo...

The Eyes of Tammy Faye is a plucky biopic adapted from the documentary film of the same name produced by World of Wonder and released in 2000. Jessica Chastain (Molly's Game, 2017) plays the title role of Tammy Faye Bakker, a devout Christian and Bible college dropout from Minnesota who joined her husband Jim as traveling ministers throughout the South in the 1960s.

The more I watched this movie, the more I became concerned. After Netflix released Kate on September 10th, it has been ranked as one of its most watched offerings for the past few days. So I started wondering, "Why is this movie so popular? Am I becoming old fashioned now in my views of thorough film criticism? Am I out of touch with the current trends and tastes of young viewers today?"

The original Candyman film, released in 1992, is a perceptive psychological horror exploring racism and the power of fables. This new version of Candyman is a thoughtful sequel about a contemporary Black painter who discovers an urban legend leading him down a path of bees and murder.

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After the goofily far-fetched films Split (2016) and Glass (2019), director M. Night Shyamalan has not received much critical praise the past few years. Old is Shyamalan's latest film, and it's thankfully not a schizophrenic disaster...but it's not a brilliant triumph either.

Director David Lowery is not a stranger to experimental or cerebral filmmaking, with his most popular example being the 2017 film, A Ghost Story. His latest experiment, The Green Knight, is adapted from the 14th century Middle English poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, about a member of King Arthur's court in the middle ages who accepts the challenge to a game of beheading from the magical Gre...

Since last year was so unique for the film industry, the summer of 2020 felt refreshingly different at least for new releases. The constant conveyor belt of vapid action films halted last summer and other, more unique, films received more attention like First Cow, Shirley, and Miss Juneteenth. Since the light at the end of the COVID tunnel is still frustratingly far away, I thought the summer of 2...

Perhaps the most anticipated summer movie of 2021, Black Widow premiered on July 9 in both movie theaters and on the Disney+ streaming platform. Directed by Australian woman Cate Shortland (Berlin Syndrome, 2017), Black Widow is a colossal, sexy, explosive action-adventure about the famous superspy Natasha Romanoff played by the steely Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story, 2019).