Movie Film Reviews

Priscilla conveys deep conflict beneath the surface instead of unpacking those inner workings. It highlights universal interactions of...

The Holdovers avoids being derivative with sincere wit, heart, and detail. There's steady exposition, sharp dialogue, callbacks,...

More family drama than murder mystery, Anatomy of a Fall is intentionally ambiguous. It deals with grief, truth, perception, ego,...

The Silence of the Lambs combines potent thrills and insight. It has themes of transformation, objectification, identity, control,...

The Blair Witch Project is innovatively simplistic. Its hyper-grounded story is thin and repetitive, but makes the drama more immediate...

Beetlejuice is a clever role reversal, combining mundane bureaucracy with afterlife fantasy. This strange humanization allows for macabre...

Train to Busan elevates horror tropes with a relatable core. The prioritized emotions deliver nuanced characters, flaws, relationships,...

Five Nights at Freddy's is boring nothingness. The narrative is stretched extremely thin, belaboring a single protagonist flaw for the...

Coraline feels like a classic fable. There's foreshadowing, symbolism, setup/payoff, earned growth, and subtextual dialogue. It has...

Rear Window is pure storytelling. Its high concept is instantly entertaining with effortless themes of isolation, obsession, voyeurism,...

Braindead (aka Dead Alive) is perfected camp, threading the horror comedy needle by being intentionally silly yet respecting the genre....

Goodfellas has moral themes of insecurity, family, abuse, corruption, normalization, power, addiction, violence, seduction, guilt,...

Killers of the Flower Moon highlights how injustices stay covert, drawing immediate lines today. There are themes of colonialism,...

The Departed is a thematic rush of morality, betrayal, nihilism, perpetual violence, inequality, paranoia, religion, family, identity,...

The Irishman is deceptively existential, building quiet senses of regret and loneliness. At first, it seems like another Scorsese epic of...

Fair Play tackles feminist topics of double standards, fragile masculinity, entitlement, abuse, accountability, gaslighting, peer...

Friday the 13th is extremely thin. There's essentially no plot or character development, just exposition dumps before a series of...

While its plot and characters are thin, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre contains potent themes about society's concealed underbelly. This...

The Cabin in the Woods has its cake and eats it too. Simultaneously deconstructing and celebrating horror tropes, it feels refreshing yet...

A Nightmare on Elm Street's perfect premise uses sleep's inevitability and intimacy as a threat. This allows for supernatural set pieces...