Movie Film Reviews

Look Both Ways is empty, trivializing serious topics. Unplanned pregnancies, competitive career paths, and relationship difficulties can...

Combining peak creativity, passion, and respect, Pulp Fiction is a postmodern masterpiece. Its iconic dialogue authentically establishes...

The Godfather is legendary. Its downfall arc, thorough dialogue, structured tension, unique development, paralleling themes, motivated...

Orphan: First Kill embraces cheese, but doesn't transcend it. It's scandalous with a surprising twist, but First Kill's excitement is...

Beast has potential. It has a focused story, established characters, and a soft theme about nature's wrath. The pacing is efficient,...

Not Okay imperfectly addresses worthy topics, critiquing influencer culture and its encouragement of fakeness, herd mentalities, and...

Emily the Criminal is thrilling and meaningful. Its grounded story follows a relatable protagonist who's in debt, can't find a decent...

Fall offsets questionable substance with decent pacing. Its opening is a rushed trope, forming flat characters and weak motivations....

Day Shift is a flat attempt at generic tropes. Its premise is decent but goes nowhere. Characters have minimal motivations and simplistic...

Bodies Bodies Bodies is a clever whodunit, yet also a witty satire on modern communication. The dialogue is buzzy, the characters are...

Room is a gripping drama about human adaptability and the power of familial love. Although its story is extremely intimate, it explores...

Eighth Grade is vulnerable, relatable, and empathetic. The discomfort of puberty is universally understood, but this film goes a step...

Locke is counterintuitively thrilling. A bottle movie of car phone conversations sounds boring, but it delivers pure emotions. Its plot...

The Rescue chronicles triumph against all odds. Its central story is amazing, but the film also develops backstories of the divers and...

Thirteen Lives is a competent recreation of an incredible story. The writing emphasizes its procedural plot much more than character...

Prey isn't brilliant, but lands key elements. First, the script establishes distinct protagonists with defined arcs. Plus, the stakes are...

Bullet Train is amusing. The story is convoluted and shallow, but it owns that as part of the fun. Plus, characters are defined, there's...

Mr. & Mrs. Smith squanders a fun premise with a lacking script. Most noticeably, the setup rushes development for set pieces....

Pleasure is purposefully upsetting, its bluntness only matched by its importance. Pleasure punches viewers in the face with systemic...

Vengeance considers lofty ideas but doesn't quite solidify. Collective consciousness, cultural fragmentation, identity, and disconnection...