Daniel Schindel

[Review] The Conjuring 2

The Conjuring series has developed into probably the apex of contemporary popular horror cinema, about as skillfully made as one can expect a thematically uncha...

[Review] The Witness

In 1964, 28-year-old Kitty Genovese was raped and murdered outside her apartment building in New York City. The New York Times made her a focus of national fasc...

[Review] Alice Through the Looking Glass

The central plot mechanism of Alice Through the Looking Glass is an actual mechanism, a doodad of whirling steampunk metal and glowy CGI called the Chronosphere...

[Review] The Nice Guys

It’s been over 40 years since Chinatown, and roughly the same amount of time separates the events of that film from those of The Nice Guys, another tale of a pr...

[Review] The Boss

If one of the ‘90s Adam Sandler movies had a weird May-December romance with a ‘00s Apatow production, the ungainly, misshapen, sterile hybrid that is The Boss ...

[Review] Demolition

There are endless canards about how grief dissolves all human rationality, and no small number of real-life examples of apparently inexplicable behavior to back...

[Review] My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

There’s one point late in My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 that stands out -- nay, is almost stunning -- for actually being underplayed. Ian (John Corbett), in the mi...

[Review] Krisha

For micro-budgeted indie dramas, the story of the addiction-riddled black sheep coming home for a family gathering has become as well-worn as the biopic for Osc...

[Review] 10 Cloverfield Lane

Forget the Cloverfield connection. The actors who were in this film didn’t even know what the title was until moments before the first trailer dropped. Producer...

Daniel Schindel