While there's a distinct novelty to all of their work -- whether it's based on books by Neil Gaiman or Alan Snow -- Laika have returned to genuinely original ma...
Florence Foster Jenkins is this year’s movie that your mom will love which, under its anodyne surface, is actually kind of morally abhorrent. Allegedly a tribut...
Throw a dart at a map, and you can make a World War II movie set in whatever place you hit. Of course, pretty much any film about the Good War that doesn’t focu...
Beginning in 1937 -- the opening credits take us through a series of period photos and alert us to expect something with a potentially greater scope than simply...
To put it upfront, Eduardo Williams’ The Human Surge is pretty much a film that, by nature, is unlovable. Often blatantly ugly or boring, it’s not so much delib...
It was around the time Pierre Bismuth won his Oscar as an original story creator on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind that he stumbled upon an unknown work ...
Within the first few minutes of Sausage Party, a package of horny “virgin” hot dogs boast to a group of neighboring buns how they’ll fulfill their wildest desir...
If this be the movie jail that Mel Gibson is destined to die in, it could be a whole lot worse. Blood Father, directed by Jean-François Richet (Mesrine, Assault...
If made with the best of intentions to explore the always effective chestnut of memory through photographic means, it’s with great misfortune that, in the case ...
"Today we gather in love."
The wedding, in cinematic terms -- the opportunity to present dozens of extras of mingling amidst an ever-expanding backdrop (e.g....
