With all the best of intentions, Firebird tells a heartfelt, secretive love story which feels all too familiar when compared to stronger films in recent years exploring similar themes.
Adapted from Aaron Blabey’s book series, The Bad Guys finds a team of five animal criminals who appear to be going clean while conspiring to pull off the biggest heist of their career.
Nothing is subtle, but everything is entertaining with Fresh, a sizzling horror film centered on a young woman realizing her new boyfriend may not be the man she believes him to be.
Full of blood and guts, and a band having the time of their lives, Studio 666, starring Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters, is probably best realized as a short film for fans, rather than an over-extended feature-length film.
Despite being as predictable and obvious as a movie can get, Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson find just enough chemistry to make Marry Me a worthwhile romantic comedy.
Jeffery Robinson’s powerful and inciteful documentary, Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America, is a film for all of us, that I fear only a few of us will spend the time to watch.
After sitting for nearly 8 years on the shelf, The King’s Daughter arrives with a fantastical tale of King Louis XIV and his coveting of a mermaid for a chance at immortality. And sadly, it is not ready for its closeup.
Redeeming Love is one of the most bizarre faith-based movies of recent memory; a story of a man’s obsession and love for a prostitute based on the Book of Hosea and adapted from a best selling novel.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza is two-thirds of a fantastic movie until it spirals into a dizzying unraveling that makes one wish this was perhaps something that was episodic in nature and therefore more developed.
Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog is a powerful, searing look at the way we weaponize cruelty as a means of survival. The masterful performances and filmmaking make this one of 2021’s best films.
Adam McKay’s doom-and-gloom satire Don’t Look Up is a polarizing and divisive look at a world apathetic to an impending catastrophe that could end all of humankind.
Completing a teen-focused trilogy with Tom Holland as Peter Parker, a/k/a Spider-Man, Spider-Man: No Way Home is a bittersweet but thoroughly entertaining adventure with lots of emotion, action, and surprises for the most loyal and most recent of fans.
Guillermo del Toro’s remake of 1940s film noir, Nightmare Alley, features Bradley Cooper as a mentalist who sees his carefully constructed world begin to crumble when he meets a psychiatrist who takes a keen interest in him.
Kenneth Branagh’s memory-filled callback to his childhood in 1969 Ireland is a sweet-natured, domestic drama about a family struggling to survive in a community they once knew and a future most uncertain, through the eyes of a 9-year-old boy.
