After 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 More
Thanks 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 More
Thanks 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 More
Bob 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 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 More
Director Akiva Schaffer uses his comedic sensibilities to revive the police squad for 80 minutes of non-stop laughs in ‘The Naked Gun’.
Read More![‘Eddington’ Review: Ari Aster’s COVID Reckoning [Fantasia 2025]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5816af52e6f2e15be207b0cd/1752762913641-8245JLVN0XN2FKPBD6BW/IMG_3961.jpg)
FilmSpeak 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 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 More
The sassy, murderous robot has returned to the big screen in ‘M3gan 2.0’, a sequel that takes the franchise in a brand new direction, but fails to capitalize on the potential that new territory brings with it.
Read More
While Bryan Cranston and Allison Janney give somewhat impassioned performances, Jon S. Baird can’t follow up the same momentum he built with ‘Tetris’ in his latest motion picture, ‘Everything’s Going to Be Great’.
Read More
With a trio of impeccable actors in Howard, Muhammad and Bloom, director Tom Kingsley gives life to what looked like an otherwise dull piece of content in ‘Deep Cover’.
Read More
Wes Anderson culminates his cycle of self-reflexion with ‘The Phoenician Scheme’, a film that throws all of his formal sensibilities out the window, as he looks to break what made him such a revered filmmaker for the past thirty years.
Read More
While ‘Jane Austen Wrecked My Life’ boasts solid performances, the array of subjects and themes it explores is far too underdeveloped to make a good movie.
Read More
Bolstered by Tim Robinson's amazing talent, Andrew DeYoung’s ‘Friendship’ is designed to make audiences as uncomfortable as possible during sequences of massive embarrassment that are as aesthetically thrilling as they are painfully hilarious.
Read More
Thanks to the effervescent chemistry from Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively, alongside a story that knows it shouldn’t take itself too seriously, Paul Feig makes his first good movie since ‘A Simple Favor’ with the sequel ‘Another Simple Favor’.
Read More
While Amalia Ulman’s dexterity and strong cast practically save ‘Magic Farm’ from being a total disaster, the movie still leaves some areas to be desired.
Read More
After nine years, Christian Wolff has made his long-awaited return to the silver screen in ‘The Accountant 2’, a wildly different sequel that should not only please fans of the original, but the uninitiated as well.
Read More
While James Griffiths’ The Ballad of Wallis Island does not reinvent the wheel, it illustrates a moving portrait of grief with three devastating performances at the core of the movie.
Read More
While Peter Cattaneo’s The Penguin Lessons contains a memorable lead turn from Steve Coogan, one can’t wash the foul taste the film leaves with its ill-conceived trivialization of Argentina’s Dirty War.
Read More
Despite a well-mounted cast and one of the best cinematographers working today contributing to the project, Alex Scharfman’s ‘Death of a Unicorn’ is yet another bad film from a studio that is in desperate need of reinvention.
Read More