Deadpool flips the script in its opening scene already. The camera smoothly glides between bodies suspended in mid-air, tracking farther and farther back until we see a car dangling in the […]
The Danish Girl, this year’s much talked-about transgender movie, puts on a very strange face right at the outset, for no apparent reason. Given the ...
Ride Along 2 was never going to be Oscar material, but that is not just because its lead characters are black. The sequel to the hit film from 2014 se ...
Let me start by spilling the beans: Secret in Their Eyes is absolutely no good. Based on the 2009 Academy Award–winning Argentine film The Secret in ...
Few things are more dangerous than a man who has nothing left to lose. Interesting, then, that the first act of Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s The Revenant, set in the sub-zero […]
The Hateful Eight is Quentin Tarantino’s eighth film. It is another Western, just like his previous, devious Django Unchained. It is another work of drama whose flamboyant dialogue has memorable, […]
“Sometimes, life is just like a soap opera.” Such seems to be the guiding principle behind Joy, David O. Russell’s latest film to be based on a true story (his […]
Technically “Rocky VII,” Creed is the first film in the 40-year-old Rocky franchise not to be penned by Sylvester Stallone, but while it is light on the rivalry between the […]
The title may be ironic, but the atmosphere of A Perfect Day is laden with gloom and desperation, as it should be, because the film is set right at the end of […]
In fact, in numerous respects, this latest episode was clearly made with the Star Wars fan in mind. Unlike the unmitigated disaster that was most of the “prequel trilogy” (episodes […]