TWISTERS Review: Lee Isaac Chung Channels His Inner Spielberg
Directed by Lee Isaac Chung, the new version stars Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, and Anthony Ramos.
SING SING Review: Colman Domingo Leads Dynamite Cast in Stirring Prison Drama
Located just 30 miles from New York City on the Hudson River, the Sing Sing Correctional Facility, a 200-year-old maximum security prison, incarcerates what the criminal (in)justice system considers the worst of the worst, repeat, violent offenders serving decades-long sentences....
Chattanooga 2024 Review: SOMNIUM, Where Ambition, Exploitation, and Desperation Meet
Chloë Levine stars in writer-director Racheal Cain's intriguing feature debut.
ScreenAnarchy's Top 10 Films Of The First Half Of 2024
The last six months of 2024 contain two more days than the first six do (courtesy of February, even in a leap year as this one...), so we could stretch it a day, but now there's no avoiding it any...
Chattanooga 2024 Review: BLIND COP 2 Parodies '80s Action Flicks to Diminishing Returns
During VHS’s all-too-brief Golden Age (roughly the ‘80s through the ‘90s), you could step into any neighborhood video store, peruse the stacks of new releases, and leave an hour later with any number of low-budget, straight-to-video action titles of varying...
Chattanooga 2024 Review: THE VOURDALAK Delivers a Different Kind of Vampire Tale
Long considered the ur-text for the depiction of vampirism in fiction, Bram Stoker’s Dracula may be the most influential (the “trope-creator”), but it was far from the first. Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 novel, Carmilla, preceded Stoker’s by more than two decades,...
THE BIKERIDERS Review: Jeff Nichols Soulfully Deconstructs '60s-Era Masculinity
Jodie Comer, Austin Butler and Tom Hardy star in a new film by Jeff Nichols.
ULTRAMAN: RISING Review: Netflix Brings an Oversized Superhero to the Small Screen
Parenting is hard. Parenting a 20-foot tall, rambunctiously temperamental kaiju toddler speeds right past hard and straight into impossible territory. It’s all the more difficult when you already split your time between saving Japan from an influx of unwanted kaiju...
INSIDE OUT 2 Review: Another Win for Pixar and for Everyone Else
Anyone who suffers from — or suffered from — generalized anxiety and/or panic attacks should probably take a deep breath or two and take a mental walk around the block before sitting down to see Pixar’s latest, greatest entry to...
GHOSTLIGHT Review: Rare Indie That Mixes LOL Humor and Heavyweight Drama
Directed by Alex Thompson and Kelly O'Sullivan, the film stars Keith Kupferer, Tara Mallen, Katherine Mallen Kupferer, and Dolly De Leon.
HIT MAN Review: More Outrageous Adventures From Richard Linklater
Glen Powell and Adria Arjona star in Richard Linklater's latest, heading to Netflix on Friday, June 7.
BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE Review: More of the Same, Just Different
After the Slap Heard (and Seen) Around the World, Will Smith, fresh off an Oscar win for King Richard, found himself in desperate need of image and reputational rehab. The answer, as always, was clear: Return to the long-running series...
YOUNG WOMAN AND THE SEA Review: Daisy Ridley Vs. the Patriarchy
At every step in Joachim Rønning’s (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Kon-Tiki) gripping old-school adaptation of Glenn Stout’s non-fiction book, Young Woman and the Sea, Daisy Ridley’s based-on-real-life Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle faces...
IN A VIOLENT NATURE Review: Monstrous Slasher, Impending Doom
Writer/director Chris Nash deconstructs, then rebuilds a classic horror monster in fiercely modern terms.
FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA Review: George Miller's Prequel Hits On All Cylinders
Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth star.
BACK TO BLACK Review: Amy Winehouse Gets the Conventional Biopic Treatment
Marisa Abela stars in the music-themed drama, directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson.
IF Review: John Krasinski's Muddled, Moving Fantasy-Drama
Ryan Reynolds stars in writer/director John Krasinski's latest film.
LAZARETH Review: Tense, Intense Survival Thriller Hits One Too Many Familiar Beats
Teens and hormones. Together, they’re responsible for the realization of any number of worst-case scenarios. Once activated, however, they’re the perfect catalyst for drama in all its permutations, up to and including writer-director Alec Tibaldi’s (The Daphne Project, Spiral Farm)...
I SAW THE TV GLOW Review: Discomfiting Blend of Fantasy, Horror, Drama
Justice Smith and Brigette Lundy-Paine star in Jane Schoenbrun's sophomore feature, from A24 Films.
THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE Review: Real-Life WWII Superspies Get the Guy Ritchie Treatment
With three films in four years, Guy Ritchie (Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, The Wrath of Man) has proven himself nothing if not prolific, specifically of broadly appealing, easily digestible, ultimately forgettable entertainments. As surface-deep as...
