There are few accolades as tired and hackneyed as calling a film “the movie we need right now.” Aside from the fact that timely themes don’t inherently constitute a good movie, the films burdened...

Early on in “The Shrouds,” Karsh, played by Vincent Cassel, asks his blind date, “How dark are you willing to go?” before describing his sudden impulse to climb into his late wife’s coffin while...

There are few experiences as strange as watching a movie and feeling completely unmoved. Most films inspire, if not excitement, then at least annoyance or distaste. Darren Aronofsky’s “Caught Stealing,”...

Things are beginning to look up for comic book fans. Every Marvel and DC fan knows the disappointment at watching their favorite characters be let down by directors who “want a new take” on their...

Since the end of the spring 2025 semester, theater screens across the country have been graced by — or, in some cases, subjected to — a host of high-profile new releases that vary wildly in both financial...

Chances are you’ve already heard about “Sinners,” the latest film by “Black Panther” director Ryan Coogler. It has been receiving a level of unanimous and passionate praise from both critics...

Bong Joon-Ho is very displeased with everything going on in the world right now. He’s been very displeased since he made “Barking Dogs Never Bite” in 2000, he grew more displeased as time went on,...

An alternate poster for Osgood Perkins’ “The Monkey” states: “It’s a movie about twin brothers who discover a toy monkey that likes killing their family. There is outrageous violence, shocking...

On Jan. 7, 2025, almost two weeks before “Wolf Man” entered theaters, Universal Pictures released the full werewolf transformation on social media. This was a puzzling move from the studio, as the...

More so than any other year in recent memory, I felt completely disconnected from the general moviegoing audience in 2024. The big studio blockbusters I liked underperformed, while the ones I hated or...

The term “Oscar bait” is thrown around carelessly in film discussions, applied to essentially any movie that doesn’t have Batman in it. It’s become such a broad classification that it sometimes...

Todd Phillips seems to have fallen short of audience expectations with his latest film “Joker: Folie à Deux,” the follow-up to his 2019 film “Joker.” In stark contrast to its predecessor’s high...