Movie Film Reviews

Late Night with the Devil utilizes a high concept for surprising depth. It sticks tightly to its framing device, delivering the story...

Godzilla x Kong is simultaneously superficial and convoluted. Its sole purpose is monster fights, amounting to drawn-out buildup to a...

Kong: Skull Island embraces its silly premise, adds decent Vietnam allegories, and gets bogged down by superficial characters. There are...

Godzilla (2014) has weak development. It attempts to stay grounded and restrained, but lacks the heart and themes to support that...

Problemista combines imagination and heart. Its fantastical absurdism establishes a playful exterior, slyly juxtaposing an emotional...

Immaculate infuses a basic plot with substance, finding relevant social commentary within the Catholic horror subgenre. Themes of cult...

Road House is an endless string of cliches. Characters are blatant and contrived tropes, so their motivations and consequences are...

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire chooses quantity over quality. It's overstuffed with excessive protagonists, exposition dumps, a convoluted...

Ghostbusters (2016) is a sloppy remake, replacing sharp wit with bloated digressions. There's blunt dialogue, dated references, pointless...

Ghostbusters II is an inferior retread, stagnating its protagonists in a predictable plot. There's clunky exposition, arbitrary villains,...

Arthur the King has superficial and insincere themes of love, gratitude, and perseverance. Its melodrama is manipulative and strained,...

Ricky Stanicky is painfully hollow. It starts with a contrived, outdated sitcom-level premise and coasts off that one joke the rest of...

The American Society of Magical Negroes has a high concept but spotty details. It introduces systemic issues of bias, tokenism,...

Love Lies Bleeding deconstructs the American Dream and broadens female empowerment through a fusion of erotic, psychological, and crime...

Robot Dreams is surprisingly poignant. While it consistently maintains a sweet tone, it packs emotional punches. Themes of loneliness,...

Under the Skin is experimental. Its extreme showing-without-telling might be confusing, repetitive, or pretentious to viewers looking for...

The Favourite is wonderfully unorthodox. It deconstructs the period piece genre with dark humor, risqué dialogue, social commentary,...

Damsel wavers between generic and subversive. While it deconstructs fundamental fantasy tropes for themes of feminine solidarity, that...

Imaginary is boring. Instead of a story, the script drags out its obvious premise. It tries to hide this fact with shoehorned drama and...

Kung Fu Panda 4 is mild. It has superficial themes of change, some setup/payoff, a running symbol, and an adequate side character arc....