Movie Film Reviews

The Killer covertly subverts the genre, work culture, and itself. The protagonist is a phony, its intensity is undermined by bureaucracy,...

The Marvels is messy. It has potentially good ideas, but is too overstuffed and disorganized to fully develop anything. There are...

Captain Marvel lacks personality and drama. While it shoehorns in platitudes to feign allyship, it doesn't earn those themes. Instead, it...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is dense, fusing a procedural mystery with a stylized character study. There are themes of...

Nyad is a standard sports drama with elevated performances. It contemplates the social structures that push older women aside and how...

Pain Hustlers loses sight of its messages. It includes pressing issues of corruption, addiction, classism, and exploitation, yet the...

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,...