Category: Reviews

  • The Death of Robin Hood Review

    The Death of Robin Hood wisely doesn’t show us the titular character’s past in flashbacks, leaving it somewhat vague. Read More >

  • One Battle After Another Review

    One Battle After Another is a wickedly funny, insanely thrilling ride that, at two hours and forty minutes, never has a dull moment. Read More >

  • The Amateur Review

    While The Amateur could’ve benefitted from a shorter runtime, Malek holds the film together whenever our interest begins to waver. Read More >

  • A Working Man Review

    If you need your Taken, Equalizer, or Rambo fix, A Working Man is a serviceable action thriller that gets the job done. Read More >

  • Black Bag Review

    It might not rank among Soderbergh’s best, but Black Bag is a fun, steamy good time with plenty of twists and turns. Read More >

  • The Northman Review

    One might think that The Northman is Eggers’ answer to Hamlet, but his inspiration runs even deeper than Shakespeare. Read More >

  • The Card Counter Review

    The Card Counter is richly atmospheric and intense without ever showing its hand. Read More >

  • Deepwater Horizon – Review (Toronto International Film Festival)

    Big, noisy Hollywood disaster films have a tendency to drone on with CGI heavy montages of destruction, inaudible dialogue and a narrative we’ve seen a hundred times before. Even more so if you already know the outcome of the story. However, it’s possible for a film to hit a nerve with a harrowing display of… Read More >

  • 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi – Review

    Lacking in that human, rawness that the story demands. Read More >

  • Sicario – Review

    “Sicario is engrossing cinema that will have you on the edge of your seat throughout, with some unbearably, and exhilaratingly suspenseful sequences”… Read More >