Movie Film Reviews

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...

Man of Steel is a headache. Oddly, its script is both excessive and rushed. Its overindulgent intro drags with desensitizing action....

League of Super-Pets is complete commercialism, combining extremely popular and oversaturated genres, yet making no effort to...

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is a guilty pleasure. It's a shoehorned sequel, riding the original's recognizability. Its plot is shallow...

Casablanca is immaculately written. Superficially, it has natural arcs and a perfect bittersweet ending. Thematically, it tackles...

The Notebook is polarizing, yet fairly middling. Mainly, the love story is sufficient but generic. Gosling encourages McAdams'...

The Gray Man has reliable ingredients, but falls into many generic pitfalls. The characters are boring tropes, the story is cliche,...