Movie Film Reviews

Totally Killer adequately functions as mindless entertainment. Its premise is a mixture of familiar tropes, leaning much more towards...

Pet Sematary: Bloodlines is neutered. There's clumsy exposition, ignored subtext, a stalling plot, flat characters, blatant contrivances,...

The Exorcist: Believer is insultingly transparent, explaining its intended substance instead of achieving it. There's painfully blunt...

The Exorcist finds terror in realism, spending most of its time on procedural drama. There's strong character development with internal...

It Chapter Two chooses horror tropes over emotions, halting drama for lengthy and redundant scare sequences. There's bulky exposition,...

It mashes solid coming-of-age with mediocre horror. The characters are overabundant, restricting development to single traits rather than...

Reptile is perhaps convoluted, generic, and underwhelming, but certainly competent. There's character development, internal and external...

Saw X emphasizes characters and motivations before abandoning that drama as a device to paint Jigsaw as a complex hero. However, as...

Saw is driven by psychology, mystery, and looming danger. It has a catchy premise, an ever-thickening plot, and setup/payoff. Its...

The Creator is formulaic but competent. It has tropes, inconsistencies, predictability, derivative metaphors, some cheesy dialogue,...

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar is poetry in motion. It's faithful to the source material, leaning into the dry wit and stories within...

Return of the Jedi is more disjointed, unfocused, and diluted than its predecessors. It's overstuffed with aimless supporting characters...

The Empire Strikes Back reverses fantasy adventure expectations with protagonist flaws, massive reveals, and a bittersweet conclusion....

Star Wars is the perfect fantasy adventure, juxtaposing archetypical narratives with unique world-building. It has iconic characters,...

No One Will Save You's external plot works in tandem with internal conflicts to keep the story motivated. Themes of guilt, alienation,...

It Lives Inside uses horror elements to address the emotional weight of prejudice. Ideas of assimilation, isolation, microaggressions,...

Expend4bles is disinterested in itself. There's cringey dialogue, groaner humor, blunt exposition, a generic plot, lame twists, deus ex...

Scrapper isn't the most original but its dedication to honesty makes the story its own. There are flawed characters, relatable pain,...

El Conde combines satire and horror into a perfect allegory of fascism. There are themes of religiosity, exploitation, classism,...

A Haunting in Venice feigns reinvention but sticks to forgettable routines. This adaptation of a proper whodunit is dulled by a...