Movie Film Reviews

Star Trek optimizes cheap but effective material. The generic and inept villain is highly motivated. Its simple and formulaic plot allows...

Ant-Man and the Wasp is a fluff-filled stepping stone. There's inconsistent humor, unexplored science, afterthought villains, thin...

Quantumania is jumbled. Its story juggles five protagonists, significant world-building, and setup for a multi-movie villain. This is all...

Ant-Man is a uniquely mixed MCU film. Its script has levity, smaller stakes, and a heist plot, making it fresh and relatable. However,...

Valentine's Day is toxic commercialism, perpetuating excessive romanticization, sanitized emotions, narrow views, oversimplified...

Her explores love with nuance, honesty, and insight, embracing philosophical and existential social commentary. Characters show real...

Starting with a trope premise, Somebody I Used to Know plays with conventions to find thoughtful conclusions. There are meaningful arcs,...

Your Place or Mine is artificial, possessing forced relationships, obvious exposition, unnatural dialogue, lame humor, flat characters,...

Magic Mike's Last Dance is out of sync. Its script is a muddled patchwork of contrived romance tropes, a predictable let's-put-on-a-show...

Magic Mike is messy, with undeveloped themes of economic distress, social stigmas, and showbusiness excess. The shallow drama provides...

Pamela, a Love Story is perhaps too sympathetic. It humanizes a larger-than-life figure (primarily through her warmth and authenticity),...

The Sixth Sense uses iconic surprises, dramatic weight, and thematic significance for elevated tension. Character arcs are woven together...

Knock at the Cabin has potential. Its efficient premise is ripe with moral complexity. It has motifs of faith, prejudice, family, and...

Parasite is refined. Simultaneously shocking and intuitive, it hits like a timeless allegory that's never been told. Blending black...

You People is sloppy. Its unoriginal premise invites important themes, but the script stops there. Characters are flat, romance is...

Shotgun Wedding is an empty series of stale tropes. Exposition is obvious, characters are cliche, humor is shallow, drama is contrived,...

Through copious absurdity, 3 Idiots highlights the social pressures placed upon economic success. Mental health, passion, and fear define...

Infinity Pool bends satire, sci-fi, horror, and erotica into a psychological trip. It has unraveling characters, a creative premise,...

Missing is riveting. Its computer screen gimmick is ambitiously restrained. This approach could get old but the sharp script sweeps...

Birdemic is less than amateur, like a backyard movie made by teenagers. The script is two stories patched together and it's still thin....