Movie Film Reviews

The Rise of Skywalker is cramped yet weightless. It has a convoluted plot, MacGuffins, useless characters, contrivances, illogical...

The Last Jedi is ambitious. There's adventure, several arcs, and meta themes. It critiques power fantasies, martyrdom, and harboring the...

The Force Awakens is energetic but shallow, establishing new protagonists without developing arcs. The plot is busy with exposition,...

The Kitchen centers a personal story against a political backdrop. Some might find these partnering threads unfocused, but the social...

I.S.S. heightens a familiar concept for decent excitement and thought. It could've further developed its messages and characters, but...

Lift doesn't respect its viewers. Its story is confusing and generic, trying to mask its derivative simplicity with convoluted nonsense....

Good Grief is well-intentioned but strained. Instead of building investment through suggestion, it directly states its plot, messages,...

The Book of Clarence is paradoxically satirical yet sincere, making it unique but also confusing. It's often unclear where it's going,...

The Beekeeper has a plot without a story. It lacks character development, subtext, or a proper ending. There's a mission and exposition,...

Mean Girls decently balances old and new. While there are plenty of line-for-line retread scenes, the script successfully delivers fresh...

Society of the Snow is respectful. It foregoes conventional writing fundamentals to focus on grounded procedures, philosophical debates,...

American Fiction harnesses satire and personal drama to advance meaningful discussions. It presents themes of social pressures,...

Night Swim is a thin premise with a thinner plot. There's an initial setup of a vague mystery and protagonist flaw, but no development...

How to Have Sex covers weighty topics of consent, coercion, assault, trauma, sexuality, and social acceptance. From there, it digs into...

When Evil Lurks elevates a familiar premise with allegories for the spread of fear, sparking themes of corruption, consequences,...

Anyone But You is hollow. The story is derivative, contrived, predictable, shallow, frustrating, repetitive, and bland. It has insincere...

The Color Purple (2023) balances tragedy, comedy, triumph, and entertainment. It offers satisfying arcs built around diverse characters....

Ferrari is layered, motivated, and oddly distant. The story is focused, balancing plot, emotions, and themes. There are thoughts on...

The Iron Claw is moving. It examines themes of family, masculinity, abuse, pressure, expectations, grief, suppression, connection,...

A Christmas Story is pure nostalgia. It captures a childhood perspective with wonder, exaggeration, innocence, anticipation, and...