Movie Film Reviews

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...

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,...