Hollywood Reviews
THE ISLAND, TERROR TRAIN, and More Classic Horrors New to 4K from KL Studio Classics
KL Studio Classics, the main sub-label under the Kino Lorber home video brand, doesn't get the praise the "cooler" boutique labels garner, but it's every bit as deserving. Their 4K scans and remasters maintain a high level of quality and...
New York 2026 Review: BEHEMOTH!, Total Ungrip of the Heart
Pedro Pascal stars in director Tony Gilroy's new film.
BEWARE BOIÚNA Review: This Giant Snake Movie Needs Way More Giant Snake
It doesn’t take much for me to completely buy into your giant snake movie. Number one, show me the snake; number two, make the snake exciting; and number three, make the movie fun. Somehow, Mike P. Nelson’s Beware Boiúna comes...
VERITY Review: Erotic Thriller Pays Lots of Attention to Teeth, but Forgoes Having Its Own
Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, and Josh Hartnett star.
DIGGER Review: Tom Cruise Acts His Ass Off In Iñárritu's Latest Big Budget Experiment
Too far is not far enough in Academy Award-winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s bombastic satire, Digger. Iñárritu guides an enthusiastic cast of Hollywood’s A-list through what is sure to wind up as one of the year’s loudest films. Tom Cruise leading...
New York 2026 Review: PAPER TIGER, No Crime, Yet Punishment
Adam Driver, Miles Teller, and Scarlett Johansson star in director James Gray's crime thriller.
YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER Review: Singularly Engaging, Singularly Provocative Religious-Themed Action-Thriller
The title of the Mahershala Ali-led, Bassam Tariq-directed Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, an action-thriller with more than just action or thrills on its mind, derives from a well-known “Hadith,” a saying attributed to the Prophet Muhammad in Islam....
HEART OF THE BEAST Review: Brad Pitt and a Dog Named Odin Elevate Survival Thriller
Only a year and a half ago, the Boy Scouts of America officially changed the name of the century-old youth organization to Scouting America, a move intended to be more inclusive than its gender-specific predecessor. (Currently, Scouting America includes roughly...
STEVEN SPIELBERG: THE SPOTLIGHT COLLECTION Brings Home Eight Modern Classics
Eight cinematic masterworks from Steven Spielberg are brought together in a beautiful 4K UHD collector's edition.
Steven Spielberg's DISCLOSURE DAY Lands on Home Video with Its Wonder Intact
Blockbusters both new and old are now on 4K UHD from Universal, Warner Bros., and Sony.
Toronto 2026 Review: MISTY GREEN, Profane Hollywood Satire Is Fitfully Amazing
Chris Rock, as a Hollywood insider kimono-opener, wants to regale us with joyously crass anecdotes about the business' lurid inner workings. In his telling, everyone is a coke-addled fuck-up cheating on their partners, sleeping around for roles and money, and...
Toronto 2026 Review: THE DEBUT, Community Theater Satire Is a Feature Length SNL Skit
Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti lead Jesse Eisenberg's musical comedy for A24.
RESIDENT EVIL Review: Zach Cregger Brilliantly Reimagines the Decades-Old Series for Our Discontented Times
After 25 years, seven films, an animated series, and even a live album, it took Zach Cregger, the writer-director behind back-to-back horror standouts, Barbarian and Weapons, to properly adapt Resident Evil, Capcom’s survival-horror videogame franchise, into a live-action film that...
Toronto 2026 Review: WILD HORSE NINE, All Flourish and No Feeling
What does Salvadore Allende’s 9/11, Hank Williams, the JFK assassination, and an empathy for insects have in common? How does a stable democracy result in homosexuality, which leads, eventually, to fine quality cheeses? Writer-director hyphenate Martin McDonagh is here to...
Toronto 2026 Review: HA-CHAN, SHAKE YOUR BOOTY!, Beautiful, Vibrant Portrait of Loss and Romance
Rinko Kikuchi stars in filmmaker Josef Kubota Wladyka's beautiful, vibrant, quirky, weird, imaginative, and genuinely moving portrait of moving on from devastating loss.
PRACTICAL MAGIC 2 Review: Second Time Isn't a Charm
When Practical Magic was released in 1998, no one probably thought it would become a special movie for a whole slew of teenage girls and young women. And not just because of witchery, black cats, and pointy hats, even though...
THE UPRISING Review: Brooding Andrew Garfield Leads a Semi-Enthralling Medieval Epic
For a brief, not-quite-shining moment, Paul Greengrass’ (Captain Phillips, United 93, the Jason Bourne series) latest film, The Uprising, bore a subtitle added by studio marketers, “The Rise of Robin Hood,” only to remove it after howls of outrage from...
RAISE THE TITANIC Review: Solid Adventure Film Now Has a Worthy Home Video Release
Also from Imprint Films: Joe Don Baker in 'Framed' on Blu-ray.
BY ANY MEANS Review: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Commands an Entertaining, Yet Derivative Civil Rights Thriller
Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II star in Elegance Bratton's civil rights historical crime thriller.
ONSLAUGHT Review: Much Ado About Murder
A former soldier scarred by battlefield trauma fights to protect her home and her young daughter when three genetically enhanced killing machines escape from a lab and descend upon her remote desert trailer park in Adam Wingard’s semi-slasher, Onslaught. Celeste...
