Movie Film Reviews

Arrival optimizes its genre with philosophical dilemmas, abstract theories, striking emotions, and fundamental themes. It explores ideas...

Prisoners is maximized suspense. Its plot can be familiar, convoluted, and contrived but remains robust with mystery, procedure, twists,...

Dune (1984) is overstuffed with punishing exposition, confusing lore, superfluous characters, dead-end threads, and convoluted devices....

The Machinist is a pure psychological thriller. Through themes of guilt, disassociation, trust, and obsession, it creates a link between...

Drive-Away Dolls has flavorful characters, internal/external conflicts, witty dialogue, motivated exposition, and absurd humor. There are...

Fargo contrasts tones for unique and heightened emotions. Its character-driven plot informs viewers of motivations and themes, creating...

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is deceptively sharp. On the surface, it has a meandering plot, one-note characters, and random messaging....

Space Cop is knowingly bad but bad all the same. The script offers nothing to emotionally invest in, placing the entertainment value...

Orion and the Dark makes mature themes accessible. Despite dissecting weighty ideas of fear, balance, courage, family, and life's...

Bob Marley: One Love is a cold puff piece. The protagonist is flat, infallible, and static, reduced to an idealized concept. There are no...

Madame Web is boring plot with superficial character drama. The story is woefully convoluted yet surprisingly empty, making viewers work...

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind explores mysterious depths of familiar feelings. It covers themes of intimacy, loneliness,...

Birds of Prey delivers inspiration alongside mistakes. Its feminism is measured and sincere, focusing on solidarity and empathy. The...

Sunset Boulevard is the cardinal showbusiness tragedy. There are themes of ego, fame, delusion, obsession, integrity, existentialism, and...

Lisa Frankenstein has creative pieces that don't consistently coalesce. It delivers sincere teenage angst from a feminine perspective,...

Juno is playful, respectful, and nuanced. There are themes of self-discovery, judgment, boundaries, partnership, agency, honesty,...

Jennifer's Body is elevated entertainment. It covers themes of adolescence, friendship, sexuality, power, trauma, agency, purity,...

Hot Fuzz is precise. It weaves together a mystery plot, character growth, and potent humor through airtight setup/payoff. Verbal jokes...

Kick-Ass has high energy and muddled messages. It aims to subvert the superhero genre but perpetuates the same old tropes. It's an origin...

Argylle buries decent ideas in a convoluted script. There's a goofy premise, superficial espionage, wonky setup/payoff, excessive twists,...