The MCU recipe goes back to a more organic flavor in ‘The Thunderbolts’, making for their strongest film in years.
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While no one can deny the intricate puppetry of ‘The Legend of Ochi’, Isaiah Saxon’s directorial debut is a frequently grating, listless carbon copy of better, more poignant family adventures, without any personal voice behind the images that the director unabashedly steals from.
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While ‘On Swift Horses’ boasts compelling performances from its star-studded cast, the film’s lack of identity makes it difficult for audiences to latch onto its story and thematic underpinnings.
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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.
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For the first time in a long time, a Sony Pictures adaptation, specifically the video game adaptation of ‘Until Dawn’, appeared to bear at least some semblance of hope from the outside looking in. It didn’t happen.
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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.
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While the surface level of ‘The Shrouds’ may appear complex, the film’s constant wrestling with the director’s own mortality ensures it will be remembered as one of David Cronenberg’s most engrossing efforts.
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Rami Malek shines in ‘The Amateur’, as the Oscar-winning actor delivers a performance in this action-thriller that feels tailor-made for him.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Disney has brought yet another live-action version of one of their classic, beloved stories to the silver screen in ‘Snow White’, a re-imagining that like its predecessors, fails to re-capture the magic of the animated original.
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While The Actor doesn’t reach its high ambitions, Duke Johnson’s surreal thriller mostly works thanks to a highly committed and nuanced performance from André Holland.
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Mark Anthony Green’s ‘Opus’ recycles the aesthetics and tropes A24 has firmly established itself upon and may accidentally reveal that their brand of “elevated” independent entertainment has grown stale after over a decade of films on the big screen.
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Thanks to a magnifying lead turn from Susan Chardy, Rungano Nyoni ensures you will not forget ‘On Becoming a Guinea Fowl’, as one of the year’s most important movies.
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In this story of the past coming back to haunt an opera director during a production of ‘Salome’, director Atom Egoyan gives us ‘Seven Veils’, a film which is all that Egoyan fans could ask for.
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After directing the best picture winning parasite, director Bong Joon Ho returns with ‘Mickey 17’, a wholly original sci-fi film that further showcases his talent behind the camera and knack for compelling storytelling.
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Paolo Sorrentino looks at youth’s deepest regrets as time goes by in ‘Parthenope,’ a study on how we we choose to spend the finite period we have on this planet.
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There more than a little Monkey-business going on, as Director Osgood Perkins’ latest film, ‘The Monkey’ is certainly not on the level of his ‘Longlegs’, as the film struggles with tonal coherency.
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Marvel kicks off their exciting 2025 lineup with ‘Captain America: Brave New World’, a sequel that doesn’t break any thrilling new ground, but delivers a strong, street-level MCU film that should please fans and casual viewers.
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