Director Potsy Ponciroli brings us ‘Motor City’ into the Toronto International Film Festival and the film presents an interesting dynamic - There is almost zero dialogue. While Alan Ritchson, Ben Foster and Shailene Woodley give loud performances, it may not be enough to save this city without sound.
Read MoreBecause director Francis Lawrence is such a storied visual artist, ‘The Long Walk’ can mostly overcome its shoddily written screenplay as it continuously coddles the audience through a slow paced stroll of Stephen King’s first work.
Read MoreAfter catapulting Brendan Fraser to his first Academy Award, Director Darren Aronofsky has his sights set on further showcasing Austin Butler’s versatility in ’Caught Stealing’, a wonderfully grungy tale of crime and chaos in 90’s NYC.
Read MoreAlex Russell eviscerates our social media-obsessed era with the riveting and often terrifying ‘Lurker’, thanks to incredible turns from Théodore Pellerin and Archie Madekwe.
Read MoreThanks to an assured sense of style and magnifying performances from its core cast, Michael Angelo Covino’s ‘Splitsville’ manages to stay afloat, despite a cyclical structure that makes some of its funnier beats less impactful.
Read MoreThanks to a captivating performance by Margaret Qualley and an assured sense of style and hyper-violence, Ethan Coen manages to make ‘Honey Don’t!’ a memorable affair, even if it continuously stumbles along the way.
Read MoreSpike Lee’s adapts Akira Kurosawa’s original with ’Highest 2 Lowest’ - undoubtedly the best remake of his career, anchored by another magnifying lead turn from Denzel Washington, who continues to prove why he’s the greatest to have ever done it.
Read MoreBob Odenkirk is back with his unique brand of justice in ‘Nobody 2’, an action sequel that doubles down on what made the original such a refreshing entry into the action genre and delivers a follow-up that may just be even more enjoyable than its predecessor.
Read MoreWhile Genndy Tartakovsky has not lost a touch animating expressive characters and worlds, his latest offering, the R-rated ’Fixed’, is painfully unfunny and contains far too much dated humor.
Read More‘Freakier Friday’ is Disney’s best theatrical live-action release in ages, thanks in no small parts to the ineffable charm of both Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Read MoreAfter taking the horror genre by storm with his debut feature ‘Barbarian’, writer/director Zach Cregger returns with ‘Weapons’, a wildly entertaining horror mystery that easily sidesteps the dreaded sophomore slump.
Read MoreIn a summer movie landscape overcrowded with superhero blockbusters, ‘She Rides Shotgun’ is a refreshing change of pace, delivering a powerful story of unconditional love and lost innocence set against a thrilling backdrop.
Read MoreWith the overcrowded horror genre rising in popularity in recent years, ’Together’ aims to ride the wave and carve its own unique and grotesque path. Thankfully, this horror film has as much heart as it does gnarly thrills and chills.
Read MoreDirector Akiva Schaffer uses his comedic sensibilities to revive the police squad for 80 minutes of non-stop laughs in ‘The Naked Gun’.
Read MoreAside from some structural hiccups, the fourth feature attempt at adapting The Fantastic Four is fittingly the strongest, which means that ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ is an aptly named film.
Read MoreFilmSpeak begins the Fantasia Festival looking at Ari Aster’s attempts to make sense out of a year (and decade) that doesn’t make sense with his latest dark comedy, ‘Eddington’.
Read MoreWhen ‘Superman’ was first announced, and since subsequently teased and advertised, a lot of folks wondered what writer/director James Gunn was going to do to break the genre’s ongoing funk.
Read MoreThe Dinosaurs are back wreaking havoc yet again in the latest Jurassic World instalment. ‘Rebirth’ may deliver some new thrills, but like its predecessors, fails to live up to the magic of the original Spielberg classic.
Read More‘Sorry, Baby’ is just an assured debut in every sense. It is very methodic and well-plotted in its cathartic ambitions, and equally deft, light, and profound. Director Eva Victor is a rising talent, and it already excites to think about what her cinematic instincts will provide us with next.
Read MoreWhile Ilya Naishuller remains a cogent action artist who knows how to frame and shoot a succession of kinetically exciting sequences, everything around the action in his latest, ‘Heads of State’, falls incredibly flat.
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