Movie Film Reviews

The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story is relatable, conveying ideas of stress and emotional support. Its protagonist starts with an...

Slumdog Millionaire is emotional. It's centered around classism and human rights issues like violence, trafficking, and displacement....

The First Omen's plot is dampened by typical prequel issues such as predictability, convolution, and absurdity. However, these flaws are...

Monkey Man is messy but ambitious. It fortifies the generic revenge action plot with themes of classism and abuse of power. However, the...

The Omen's fundamental approach further solidified the subgenre. The mystery has steady investigation, setup/payoff, and clues. Its...

Saint Maud is a psychological character study, propelled by emotions and beliefs. There are themes of spirituality, death, masochism,...

Late Night with the Devil utilizes a high concept for surprising depth. It sticks tightly to its framing device, delivering the story...

Godzilla x Kong is simultaneously superficial and convoluted. Its sole purpose is monster fights, amounting to drawn-out buildup to a...

Kong: Skull Island embraces its silly premise, adds decent Vietnam allegories, and gets bogged down by superficial characters. There are...

Godzilla (2014) has weak development. It attempts to stay grounded and restrained, but lacks the heart and themes to support that...

Problemista combines imagination and heart. Its fantastical absurdism establishes a playful exterior, slyly juxtaposing an emotional...

Immaculate infuses a basic plot with substance, finding relevant social commentary within the Catholic horror subgenre. Themes of cult...

Road House is an endless string of cliches. Characters are blatant and contrived tropes, so their motivations and consequences are...

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire chooses quantity over quality. It's overstuffed with excessive protagonists, exposition dumps, a convoluted...

Ghostbusters (2016) is a sloppy remake, replacing sharp wit with bloated digressions. There's blunt dialogue, dated references, pointless...

Ghostbusters II is an inferior retread, stagnating its protagonists in a predictable plot. There's clunky exposition, arbitrary villains,...

Arthur the King has superficial and insincere themes of love, gratitude, and perseverance. Its melodrama is manipulative and strained,...

Ricky Stanicky is painfully hollow. It starts with a contrived, outdated sitcom-level premise and coasts off that one joke the rest of...

The American Society of Magical Negroes has a high concept but spotty details. It introduces systemic issues of bias, tokenism,...

Love Lies Bleeding deconstructs the American Dream and broadens female empowerment through a fusion of erotic, psychological, and crime...