Movie Film Reviews

Memento is purposeful innovation. Its timeline manipulation isn't just a riveting gimmick, but also essential to immersion and themes....

Bird Box Barcelona is limp. It's built around a father/daughter relationship and a conflicted protagonist with unclear rules, repetitive...

Bird Box is mixed. It has a catchy premise, a flawed protagonist, earned romance, inclusivity, and personal struggles. There are themes...

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One is everything expected. It has flat protagonists, a convoluted plot, MacGuffins, constant...

Mission: Impossible - Fallout is a maximized vanity project, more an excuse for set pieces than a story. Its protagonist is a Mary Sue,...

Mission: Impossible is a solid thriller. There's a subversive opening, a motivated plot, properly set-up twists, and a steady increase in...

Fateful Findings is horribly uncomfortable. Its erratic narrative jumps across incongruent ideas without structure. There's a...

Joy Ride traps potential in mediocrity. It's informed about race, sexuality, femininity, body positivity, and identity. Yet, this...

Insidious: The Red Door takes a purposeful path with spotty execution, building around father-son tension and making the horror a...

Insidious is cliche but capable, mixing horror tropes with minor twists. The protagonist has some conflict avoidance development, yet...

Joan is Awful combines meta social commentary, dystopian science fiction, and dark humor. It addresses data harvesting, media influence,...

Nimona is entertaining and meaningful, a subtle enough allegory for bigotry and a fun sci-fi fantasy adventure. There are consistent...

The Dial of Destiny is forgettable. Its moments of vulnerability have potential, but they're so minimal that they feel unearned and...

The Crystal Skull is confused, overstuffed with loose threads that unravel into a tangled mess. There are rushed intros, unearned twists,...

Last Crusade deepens the magic of the original with emotional vulnerability. There are personal stakes, meaningful MacGuffins, proactive...

Temple of Doom is flawed but effective. It has contrivances, incidental motivations, annoying sidekicks, regressive stereotypes, and...

Minari is a nostalgic drama with themes of the American dream, immigration, heritage, faith, rebirth, family, purpose, and suppression....

No Hard Feelings is mediocre. Its raunchy comedy is a tired and outdated imitation. It doesn't even fully commit, shifting into unearned...

Past Lives is bittersweet. Its understated authenticity allows tension to build to cathartic releases before viewers even realize. Heavy...

Asteroid City's consistency is easy to take for granted. Its intentionally cold script depicts how we create order to escape the...