There are certain movies critics call “review-proof,” and then there’s The First Purge. A franchise not smart enough to truly explore the sociopolitical ideas that it...
Other than “dinosaurs,” I no longer know what there is to like about the Jurassic Park franchise, especially after Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. There was a...
By 2016, when the first film was released, superheroes were already funny, but Deadpool 2 imagines an alternate timeline where the genre is still in desperate...
William Friedkin is a visionary filmmaker with the demeanor (and occasionally, the work) of a used-car salesman; The French Connection, The Exorcist and Sorcerer alone make...
Though Rampage may be the first contemporary video game adaptation whose source material I’m actually familiar with, it’s simultaneously a relief and disappointment that Brad Peyton’s...
Movies written by artificial intelligence sound like an assault on human creativity, but when four people can write something as generic and bland as Truth or...
Horror is a genre where a film can sustain a dubious premise for at least one feature-length story, but the flaws in that premise become more...
Eli Roth’s work as a director of features, at least his last few, feels like some ruthless act of mainstream trolling: he turns provocative situations into...
In a cinematic landscape littered with remakes, copycats and formulaic fluff, playing against expectations is almost always a wonderful thing, and even when it doesn’t fully...
Released theatrically for one night in October 2017 before its unceremonious arrival on DVD and streaming platforms February 6, Keep Watching is the mash-up of The...
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