Thoroughbreds exhibits the best and worst of both indie thrillers and comedies, and seems pitched specifically to earn attention as a first feature from “an exc...
Midway through Angelica, a medium (played by a hammy, bug-eyed Janet McTeer) talks to Constance (Jena Malone) about the ghostly apparition plaguing her and her ...
Hannah is Charlotte Rampling’s face. There are barely any other actors to speak of in this film, and the camera often purposefully excises their faces from its ...
The great millstone around Justice League's neck is the uneven quality of the films that have preceded it, but it's also the thing working in its favor. Here we...
Studies in subtraction. Milla traces the arc of life solely through the in-betweens. Major upheavals occur, and we see both where they come from and their fallo...
By Jordan Ruimy
Based on the popular book by R. J. Palacio, Stephen Chbosky's Wonder is a sweet, delicate, self-aware adaptation that remarkably sidesteps most...
The opening transition from credits to film of Petra Biondina Volpe's Tribeca Film Festival Audience Award-winning The Divine Order is absolute perfection. With...
By Jordan Ruimy
Sherlock Holmes was successfully given the cinematic and television treatment this last century, both of which been met with hardcore following...
If you've ever worked an office job wherein every single one of your bosses has been promoted above his/her aptitude, you know what futility feels like. You sla...
Boldly marketed in Japan and abroad as the 100th film of the legendary Takashi Miike, one has to ask if Blade of the Immortal can be appropriately burdened with...
