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'Spaceman' Review: Netflix Drama Soars Among the Stars

Perhaps just when we needed a film like this, enter Netflix’s Spaceman - a deceivingly simple drama that does more than drink and dribble. Questions of love, time and space, and redemption float aimlessly among the cinematic stars, away from a grounded Adam Sandler who may have just delivered his best performance yet.

'Fair Play' Review: Buy Into This Psychosexual Corporate Thrill Ride [TIFF 2023]

‘First Play’ serves more as a thriller than a drama though and takes a certain level of comfortability with serious topics to be able to watch. Hopefully, with it’s success on the platform, Netflix will go back to giving more artists a creative domain to showcase their newest works.

'Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio' Review: A Profound Portrait of Life, Death, and Patriarchy

Sure, there is a talking cricket and a compendium of other colorful characters, but Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is totally - and tonally - different from any of the other adaptations, which is possibly why it is one of the best films of the year.

'Bruised' Review: A Gruelling Endeavour with Mixed Results

With her directorial debut, ‘Bruised’ is new ground for Berry, even as she also stars in the lead role of Jackie Justice. Jackie is a woman who once fought in the UFC, and is now an aging train wreck of a human being. She lives with her equally washed-up manager and boyfriend Desi (Adan Canto), as they wallow in failure and alcoholism.

'The Starling' Review: Chris O'Dowd's Performance Soars but the Film Should Have Remained Grounded

Melissa McCarthy re-teams with director Theodore Melfi and actor Chris O’Dowd to once again show her dramatic chops, but while “The Starling” attempts to soar and be poignant, the script grounds the film very quickly.

‘Gunpowder Milkshake’ Review: All Too Familiar, Far Too Unsubstantial

Navot Papushado’s Gunpowder Milkshake has plenty of flash and style, but forgets that story and character should come first before trying to expand their universe for multiple sequels and spin-offs.

'Mank' Review: Fincher's Triumphant Biopic Demonstrates the Difficulty of Buying into Hollywood

Absent for the last six years, director and auteur, David Fincher returns with an elegant, cynical look at old-school Hollywood and the parallels to today.

Movie Review, DramaRyan McQuadeNovember 13, 2020netflix movie review, Netflix, David Fincher, Mank, Gary Oldman, oscar movies

'Project Power' Review: Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt Team-Up for a Fun But Forgettable Action Flick

Netflix’s latest original movie, “Project Power,” has plenty of powers, but never manages to be super. Most of the movie is competent, but it’s hard to heap too much praise on a film that tees itself up for success and still bungles it’s shot.