Movie Film Reviews

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,...

Dungeons & Dragons is derivative. Its predictable script has obvious exposition, inconsistent motivations, coincidences, McGuffins, blunt...

Scott Pilgrim is imaginative. Its comedic tone lacks vulnerability, but that's outweighed by surreal substance. The protagonist is an...

Boston Strangler is a competent thriller with social gravity. Ideas of sexism, bureaucracy, and publicity are explored, highlighting how...

Despite formulaic, melodramatic, and repetitive habits, A Good Person succeeds through vulnerability. There's growth, tension, natural...

John Wick 4 is unashamed entertainment, a means for abundant action. There's cartoonish realism, no emotions, cliche motivations,...

John Wick is simple yet effective. Its humanizing onset can feel superficial, but also very streamlined. There's gratuitous action...

The Grand Budapest Hotel hides dense thought in meticulous detail, highlighting the idealization of storytelling. Themes of nostalgia,...

Luther: The Fallen Sun tries to highlight the underbelly of mental illness, secrets, and spectacle, but it rarely lands. This is because...

A simple story with complex subtext, Inside strips humanity to its bones. Themes of art, creation/destruction, luxury, time, and...

Shazam! Fury of the Gods abandons its predecessor. The comedy in the first Shazam! had self-aware honesty and purpose. This sequel is...