Movie Film Reviews

Ghosted is a disposable parade of cheap tropes. There's contrived emotions, cringe romance, corny humor, rush developments, numbing...

The Evil Dead has personality. Its writing is simple but streamlined. Tropey characters have adequate emotional development. There's...

Evil Dead Rise buries personality under shallow tropes. There are useless characters, minimal developments, indistinct relationships,...

Beau is Afraid is intentionally nightmarish. Its uncomfortable absurdism is divisive but fitting. Themes cover anxiety, manipulation,...

Dazed and Confused finds poetry in simplicity. Instead of forcing drama, it savors small moments with spontaneous freedom. This allows...

How to Blow Up a Pipeline is assertive. It ponders morality, radical activism, propaganda, corruption, terrorism, authority, inequality,...

Suzume weaves ideas of trauma, home, and nature into a spiritual folktale. Its creativity is entertaining and substantial, delivering a...

Bram Stoker's Dracula is timeless. True to its source, it's dense with lore, themes, and magnitude. Centered around a sympathetic...

Renfield is patchy. Instead of developing its catchy premise, it's distracted by an underwhelming side plot. Maybe the metaphor was...

Sin City is refined flair. Arguably exploitative, it amplifies misogynistic and violent realities with themes of corruption, moral...

Super Mario Bros is impressively nonsensical. Its simplistic narrative has convoluted holes and heavy exposition. There are awkward...

Out of sync, Paint has competent ingredients that never work. Jokes flop, characters feel strange, drama is clunky, and themes are...

Rye Lane is a fresh romcom with magnetic characters, witty dialogue, relatability, dynamic relationships, and earned positivity. Themes...

Air is a competent dad movie with driven dialogue, enjoyable characters, and consistent humor. The acting is fun while staying grounded....

The Super Mario Bros Movie is more concerned with commercialization than a story. There's blunt dialogue, bland comedy, absent tension,...

Murder Mystery 2 is an empty cash grab. There's blunt exposition, annoying protagonists, inane banter, predictable cliches, contrivances,...

Brokeback Mountain gently observes severe social pressures. It covers repression, prejudice, internalization, denial, privacy, nature,...

A Thousand and One is gritty art, revealing social issues and intimate drama in one complex relationship. Inequality, estrangement,...

Tetris has potential. Its legal thriller plot has clashing factions, multiple developments, and technical disputes. Egerton's performance...

Return to Seoul carefully studies intimate ideas like fear, self-discovery, family, culture, translation, history, assimilation,...