film reviews

'A Complete Unknown' Offers the Same Old Side of Bob Dylan
Directed by James Mangold
PUBLISHED Jan 2, 2025
Biopics, particularly music biopics, often follow a hollow recipe that, in recent years, has begun to sour, with a slew of derivative...
Take That, Biopics! 'Better Man' Bests the Formula
Directed by Michael Gracey
PUBLISHED Dec 25, 2024
What makes 'Better Man' a distinctive music biopic among the seemingly endless sea of the subgenre is not the fact that director Michael...
Martin Short Brought a Parade of Celebrity Cameos to 'Saturday Night Live'
December 21, 2024
PUBLISHED Dec 22, 2024
With a little help from many celebrity friends, the brilliant Martin Short finally joined the Five-Timers Club and appeared in most of the...
'Nosferatu' Feeds Off of Its Predecessors
Directed by Robert Eggers
PUBLISHED Dec 20, 2024
In singing the praises of F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent odyssey Nosferatu, Roger Ebert described the film as, "in awe of its material. It seems...
Be Prepared, 'Mufasa: The Lion King' Circles Back to Its Classic Origins
Directed by Barry Jenkins
PUBLISHED Dec 20, 2024
From its opening tribute to the late James Earl Jones, Barry Jenkins's 'Mufasa: The Lion King' makes certain to pay care and respect to the...
'The Brutalist' Builds Up and Tears Down the American Dream
Directed by Brady Corbet
PUBLISHED Dec 16, 2024
The first thing that Hungarian-Jewish architect and Holocaust survivor László Tóth (Adrien Brody) sees upon emerging from the dark, cramped...
Chris Rock Relived the Good Old Days on 'SNL' with Help from Adam Sandler
December 14, 2024
PUBLISHED Dec 15, 2024
Chris Rock returned for a strong episode of Saturday Night Live, joined at one point by his 'SNL' castmate Adam Sandler, and Gracie Abrams...
'Kraven the Hunter' Is Cravin' to Be Put Out of Its Misery
Directed by J.C. Chandor
PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2024
Sony's Spider-Man Villain Spin-Off Universe (or as Sony likes to call it, "Sony's Spider-Man Universe") has been a disaster, a series of ba...