Movie Film Reviews

Wonder Woman is adequate, fortifying exhausted superhero formulas with focused motivations and growth. There are heavy exposition dumps,...

The Deepest Breath highlights two prominent freediving stars, covering their rises and the dangers they encounter. It touches on the...

Impressively derivative, Heart of Stone begs to be forgotten background noise. It's all generic plot with no personal emotions, forcing...

The Last Voyage of the Demeter is a premise without a story. It has flat characters, shallow emotions, weak motivations, and corny...

Gran Turismo is generic but competent. It hits all the underdog sports movie tropes with cliche characters, repetitive obstacles, and...

Hidden Strike wastes potential. The combination of Chan and Cena offers fleeting charm and chemistry, but those glimpses of entertainment...

I, Tonya is irreverent yet empathetic. It covers themes of feminine ideals, cycles of abuse, classism, cognitive dissonance,...

Drive wraps turbulent drama under a sleek exterior. It has themes of impulse, control, nature, isolation, masculinity, constructs,...

Meg 2 is numbing. Expectedly, it's formulaic, nonsensical, superficial, obvious, unnatural, excessive, and silly. Unexpectedly, it's...

Mutant Mayhem is likable. It has predictable tropes, blunt exposition, pop culture references, and contrivances, but those flaws are...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is careless. Its plot is generic, convoluted, illogical, and impersonal. It has inept villains, flat...

Theater Camp comes from a sincere place. Its plot conflict is a classic trope, but that's just a foundation to build flavorful...

Haunted Mansion is bland and convoluted. It has its moments, but is mostly boring, predictable, and forgettable. There are too many...

Talk to Me is a fresh spin on familiar structures, providing accessibility and depth. It weaves in themes of substance abuse, peer...

It Comes at Night's ambiguity heightens its mood and themes of paranoia, grief, trauma, and guilt. The desperate situation makes...

Do the Right Thing is an unapologetic microcosm of racial tension, community, cultural identity, segregation, cycles of trauma,...

They Cloned Tyrone is smart and fun, delivering needed perspective with potent flavor. It has witty dialogue, ranged humor, social...

Barbie is lightning in a bottle. It's ideally self-aware and experimental, subverting conventions while remaining playful. It examines...

Oppenheimer is dense with procedural drama, scientific accuracy, and political intrigue. The core conflict is humanity's power surpassing...

Dunkirk is immersive, focusing on events over characters. This unconventional approach may feel impersonal, but allows for a larger scope...