Movie Film Reviews

The Lion King is Shakespearean with themes of responsibility, past, identity, shame, oneness, trauma, and time. These messages are...

The Covenant highlights how Afghan interpreters have been abandoned and targeted. The film balances entertainment and respect when...

Fast Five is a thin excuse for action. Its messy script has illogical motivations, contrivances, absent tension, invincible protagonists,...

Fast X is chaotic nonsense. There's obvious exposition, excessive characters, insincere drama, unnatural dialogue, contrivances,...

The Fast and the Furious is fair shlock. There's shallow romance, unnatural dialogue, flat characters, rushed drama, absent motivations,...

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret pushes underrepresented discussions of womanhood, spirituality, and adolescence. It avoids...

Beef depicts emotional isolation. Both protagonists have support, yet they're not honest with themselves so they can't connect with...

BlackBerry is dynamic. Propelled by conflicts, it never exhausts due to earned levity, character development, and organized relief. Its...

Enys Men is non-narrative expressionism. More mood than story, its mysterious plot blurs into an experimental assembly of...

Edgy but intentional, Donnie Darko is cohesively vague. Themes of suburbia, ostracization, determinism, destruction, fear, faith, memory,...

Monty Python and the Holy Grail maximizes self-awareness. Overtly silly but subtly clever, it pioneers meta satire by deconstructing epic...

Enigmatic, Super allows for interpretation. It satirizes structures that corrupt vigilantism, mental illness, faith, and justice. Blinded...

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is emotionally impactful because it embraces pain. Furthering themes of family, belonging, and trauma, it...

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 embraces its strengths. Its dynamic comedy, dialogue, relationships, and characters are enhanced by a...

Guardians of the Galaxy is Marvel's charismatic core. Its plot has generic villains, MacGuffins, and stakes, yet it compensates with...

Peter Pan & Wendy conflicts with itself. It deepens themes by highlighting Pan's flaws and Hook's humanity, yet the film hesitates with...

Sisu is exactly what it aims to be. Its thin story has no arc or themes. The protagonist is a plain trope. There are flat villains,...

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,...