Cordelia engages as an exercise in tension for a while, but is utterly undone by a slogging climax that opts for conceptual indulgence and dank metaphor.…
Mascarpone vacillates between insight and one-dimensionality, but its luscious aesthetic character keeps its lightly recommendable. Gay Italian drama Mascarpone certainly knows how to appease its target…
The latest film to fail to properly utilize the cornfield’s unique horror setting, Escape the Field isn’t the least bit scary, clever, or compelling. Speaking…
The Found Footage Phenomenon is a bland, talking head-heavy dud that feels like an incomplete Wikipedia article on its subject matter. If anything, new documentary…
Senior Year is an inconsistent, scattershot vanity project for Rebel Wilson, tanking every potentially interesting angle in favor of lame mugging. Austin Powers meets Never…
Monstrous is the latest metaphor-heavy Babadook knockoff that viewers could do without. Imagine, for one brief moment, if the man behind the infamous 2007 Lindsay…
Marmaduke is one of the most scatological films you’re ever likely to see, and so it’s fitting that it turns out to be an epic piece…
The Sound of Violet is a deeply out of touch, frequently offensive bit of nonsense that is best left unwatched. Phrases like “unbelievable” and “batshit insane”…
Madelines has the clear kernel of a good idea, but ultimately feels like the rough draft of a rough draft. The latest no-budget sci-fi flick to…
As They Made Us leans heavily into flat sitcom tropes, neutering any potential feeling the family drama might have otherwise realized. Family dramedy As They Made…
The South Korean drama Hot in Day, Cold at Night is nothing if not timely in its portrait of an unnamed, twenty-something couple desperately trying…
The Bad Guys is an energetic crowd-pleaser with some inspired animation, but it’s hampered by lazy storytelling and an overreliance on meta-ness and winking reference. Based…
The only choice to make regarding Choose or Die is to choose not to watch this lazy, unintelligible bit of horror rehash. New Netflix horror flick Choose…
Aline is an undeniably singular film, but its eccentricities are mostly gloss on an overly-familiar biopic template. The new musical drama Aline is officially described in…
Poppy Field carries the veneer of importance but isn’t much more than a series of lazy ironies, a shallow character study in need of a character.…
Metal Lords blunders plenty, but its blend of heavy metal and heavy feels makes for an imperfect but heartfelt affair. New Netflix film Metal Lords opens…
All the Old Knives is a DOA old-school espionage thriller that only succeeds in proving how wasted Chris Pine is. Sporting quite possibly one of the…
Barbarians is blunt-force cinema at its worst, beating viewers over the head with its shallow, pseudo-provocative gabble. Barbarians is a home-invasion thriller that desperately wants to…
Adele Exarchopoulos makes this French import worth at least a couple fucks. The mid-midlife crisis genre has always been a bit of a mixed bag,…