Hollywood Reviews
SORCERER 4K Review: Friedkin's Fury Road
Roy Scheider goes crazy in the jungle in the 1977 epic that opened a week after 'Star Wars.'
ECHO VALLEY Review: Julianne Moore, Sydney Sweeney in Tense, Suspenseful Thriller
In the real world, fireworks usually signal celebration, but in director Michael Pearce’s (Encounter, Beast) latest film, Echo Valley, a dramatic thriller co-starring Oscar winner Julianne Moore (The Room Next Door, May December, When You Finish Saving the World) and...
WICK IS PAIN Review: Behind the Scenes in the Action Franchise
Jeffrey Doe's documentary asks: What makes the action franchise work?
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON Review: Live-Action Remake Fails to Justify Its Existence
When filmmaker Gus Van Zant (Milk, My Own Private Idaho, Drugstore Cowboy) remade Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece, Psycho, in 1998, critics somewhat justifiably dismissed the end result as a stunt, a prank, a jest, and not an affectionate homage to a...
THE LIFE OF CHUCK Review: Dance Like Everyone's Watching and Wants to Know How
Mike Flanagan Tackles a somewhat gentler Stephen King story.
MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS 4K Review
Directed and co-written by Paul Schrader (First Reformed, The Canyons, Cat People, American Gigolo), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, is out now from our friends at Criterion in a gorgeous 4K/Blu-ray combo release. The film is a departure of...
THE WIZ 4K Review: Looks Great Now, and Even More Deeply Weird
Diana Ross and Michael Jackson lead Sidney Lumet's deeply weird adaptation of the Broadway stage production on a sterling Criterion 4K disc.
Now Streaming: THE ACCOUNTANT 2 Doesn't Add Up, But No One Cares. NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH Goes to Sleep.
Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Jack Quaid star.
BALLERINA Review: All She Wants To Do Is Dance (But Her Shooting Skills Are Better)
Ana de Armas, Anjelica Huston, Gabriel Byrne, Lance Reddick, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Norman Reedus star, with Ian McShane, and Keanu Reeves.
PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS Review: Bloody, Terrific Tales of Action And Horror Nearly Undone by Overall Climax
A Viking clan-leader takes their son out for the ultimate Take Your Child to Work Day. Two brothers in feudal Japan are at odds on which one should have taken over leadership of the family when an even bigger party...
RESIDENT ALIEN S4 Review: High Quality Comfort Food
Alan Tudyk leads a sci-fi comedy series, which continues to introduce fresh wrinkles.
STICK S1 Review: Varying Degrees of Comic Amusement
Owen Wilson leads a sports comedy, debuting globally on Apple TV+.
FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH Review: Nothing But Fool's Gold
Guy Ritchie's latest is a charisma-free endeavor as empty as its leads' smiles.
THE MORTICIAN Review: Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust. But Whose Ashes?
Joshua Rofé's documentary series dives into the case of a mortician accused of mishandling ashes of the dearly departed.
THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME Review: All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go
Out of many cultural references featured in Wes Anderson’s latest film, The Phoenician Scheme, the one that was absolutely not intended by the authors, but that keeps coming to mind, is Amy Adams’ famous rant in The Fighter about having...
BONO: STORIES OF SURRENDER Review: Let the Little Man Tell His Story
The one-man stage show by Bono comes vividly to life under Andrew Dominik's direction.
KARATE KID: LEGENDS Review: Old-School Formula Reworked for the 21st Century
The 1980s were a veritable Golden Age for fans of The Karate Kid franchise. Beginning at the height of the Reagan Era with the John G. Avildsen-directed The Karate Kid in 1984, the loosely structured trilogy took Daniel LaRusso...
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - THE FINAL RECKONING Review: A Big, Beautiful, Messy, Thrilling, Heartfelt Goodbye
Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie give an epic send-off to one of the biggest and very best action franchises.
LILO & STITCH Review: New Ways to Be Cute
Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp ('Marcel the Shell with Shoes On'), the live-action remake stars Sydney Elizebeth Agudong, Billy Magnussen, and Zach Galifianakis.
FINAL DESTINATION BLOODLINES Review: Death Is Back, And This Time He Wants Your Whole Damn Family
Resurrecting a franchise after an extended slumber is always a risky move, even more so with a series as beloved by horror fans as Final Destination. It’s been 14 years since the last installment, and in the intervening years cult...
