Movie Film Reviews

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,...

Nope recontextualizes blockbusters by critiquing the monetization of trauma. Its protagonists hope to make money off their terrorizer,...

Us works as superficial horror, masking subtle depth. Its logistics are fairly nonsensical, but the concept is scary and ripe for...

Get Out uniquely mixes sci-fi, horror, and social commentary. Its script packs important metaphors into a gripping story, nimbly...

The Sea Beast is pleasant. It has generic themes and a predictable plot, but its characters have enough heart to make viewers care. No...