A terrific Florence Pugh keeps things engaging even if the great looking film around her offers primarily technical pleasures.…
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With the hothouse Gothic Pearl, a mostly pleasing oddity co-written by director Ti West and star Mia Goth following their previous 2022 collaboration X (and serving as a prequel to that picture), the pair have delivered a movie that plays like a supersaturated, Technicolor…
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An intriguing, creepy set-up is ultimately undone by an overcooked plot that dissipates the superbly calibrated suspense of the picture's first half.…
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Aubrey Plaza, in a career performance, is an ordinary and well-meaning person beaten down by crushing student loan debt and unfair hiring practices before turning to a life of crime to make ends meet.…
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Resurrection is fascinating in what it has to say about motherhood, regret, different generations of women, relationships of manipulation and abuse, and how a person may go on from real life horror to create a different life, image, new persona, be outwardly successful but…
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It’s easy to appreciate the picture’s pointed satirical declarations about the movie industry: that people of color are often cast to the wayside in a white dominated industry, that today's dependence on digital movie technology should be discarded in favor of traditional shot-on-film cameras,…
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The great Leslie Manville headlines a loving picture suggesting the impact that a simple person of good values and compassion can make in the world, in unexpected ways, unlikely places and with people from different realms who share the same values.…
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The extent to which one enjoys Thor: Love and Thunder, will depend upon a tolerance for an overplayed hand of wink-wink, nudge-nudge so broad as to suggest that hundreds of millions of dollars were spent aspiring to little else than a trivial wank.…
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Jenny Slate triumphs in a winning performance as a diminutive and unlikely hero contemplating life, community and finding a place in the world.…
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In a movie cage fight between director and actor, Baz Luhrmann tries very hard—and nearly succeeds—at minimizing star Austin Butler’s dazzling turn as The King of rock-n-roll in Elvis, a wildly overdetermined and largely superficial collection of gee-whiz film techniques masquerading as a biopic…
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