Movie Film Reviews

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...

Dumb Money is conventional but effective. The script skillfully bounces across parallel threads with concise characters, productive...

The Blackening doesn't quite maximize its great potential. It has meta awareness, defined characters, natural exposition, interpersonal...

With perfected formulas and agreeable tones, Forrest Gump is a model dad movie. There's quotable dialogue, humor, iconic characters, and...

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 is a pointless waste of time, thinly stretching aimless platitudes into a feature film. It doesn't have a...

The Conjuring is competently formulaic. It has heavy exposition, constant tropes, contrivances, excessive characters, simple emotions,...

The Nun II is thoroughly boring. Its character drama and plot are both exceptionally thin, leaving the runtime with frustrating filler...

Mulholland Drive is dense yet ambiguous. It critiques the Hollywood dream, contrasts fame with corruption, and deconstructs storytelling....

A Separation unpacks theoretical ideologies in a messy reality, highlighting the complicated nuances of morality. There are themes of...

The Equalizer 3 takes a slow approach to a generic story. Going smaller is respectable, but this script lacks the emotional substance to...