Quantcast
Saturday, July 12, 2025

Film Reviews

Film Reviews

Das Bild

The story of how the Nazis looted Europe’s storehouses of art masterpieces is a compelling one, whose salient details only came to light within...

Tag, You’re It

Ever since It Follows debuted at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, horror fans haven’t been able to stop talking about it. Maybe you were...

Throw Away the Key

The same week that It Follows (see: above review) treats rape as a horrifying thing, we have Get Hard, which thinks rape is hilarious,...
Insurgent

Out of Faction

Example No. 54,903,812 of the movie industry’s glass ceiling: While Hollywood is coming around at a snail’s pace to the idea that a fantasy-adventure...
Cymbeline.

Death on the Wheel

I can’t get enough of Shakespeare’s so-called “problem plays” like Measure for Measure, The Winter’s Tale, and Cymbeline, and I’m always eager to see...
Run All Night

Red-Eye Flight

We need to pull the plug on this — Liam Neeson’s whole act is starting to get embarrassing. The Northern Irishman caught a second...
Cinderella

Chimes at Midnight

The story of Cinderella was first written down sometime in the 16th century by the Italian writer Giambattista Basile. Since then, the tale of...
These Final Hours.

At the End of the Day

Remember this name: Zak Hilditch. You’ll probably be hearing it again soon. That’s because filmmakers who can convincingly evoke the apocalypse on a small...

Second Best Indeed

I was lukewarm on The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel when it opened two summers ago, so you probably won’t be surprised that I had...

Screening the World

North Texas’ increasing ethnic diversity is gradually being reflected on the screens of Tarrant County’s multiplexes. AMC Grapevine Mills has done a prosperous business...