Above all else, credit to all involved for the audacity. Within the first fifteen minutes or so of Serenity, written and directed by Steven Knight, an old-schoo...
Like many directorial debuts, Attack the Block was an ideal venture for writer-director Joe Cornish to exercise his pet obsessions. The cult-film-in-the-making ...
It's not about the robbery. King of Thieves wouldn't be worth telling if it was just watching these senior actors ranging from 60 to 85 fictitiously accomplish ...
Almost three years ago, M. Night Shyamalan—famous and infamous for his twist endings—pulled the greatest cinematic reveal yet in his career. At the end of Split...
The film begins in total silence to the point where you wonder if something went wrong with the sound. The camera pans through still trees until finding Gannon ...
The Upside is a movie so safe that it barely exists, like a pool so scared of people drowning that it aspires to little more depth than a wet spot on the ground....
If the movies have taught us something is that nothing good ever comes from dinner parties. So when the seven friends in Manolo Caro’s Perfect Strangers get tog...
It may be helpful to contextualize Buffalo Boys through the lens of colonization. This Indonesian riff on the Spaghetti Western is given cultural specificity th...
There are quite a number of memorable moments peppered through Ben Is Back, an impressively effective addiction drama written and directed by Peter Hedges, star...
As far as PG-13 horror films released in January go, Escape Room exceeds expectations despite a fairly sloppy (yet efficient) set-up which traces three of the s...
