Movie Film Reviews

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,...

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...