A Fourth Ice Age
If you buy a ticket to see Ice Age: Continental Drift, you will see a lovely, clever, surprisingly moving animated film that ends in...
Promising Young Woman: To Catch a Predator
Someone’s coming for you, all you rapists, sexual predators, and even you friends and colleagues who enable them. She doesn’t look like much, but...
Death on a Platform
The Weinstein Company didn’t intend to release Fruitvale Station in the aftermath of the Trayvon Martin verdict. Things just worked out that way. Truthfully,...
The Hardy Girl
Back in 1967, there was a film adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel Far From the Madding Crowd. (Note to younger movie fans: Do not...
Alienoid: Space Oddity
Opening this week at Cinemark Alliance Town Center and AMC Grapevine Mills, Alienoid is by no means the best alien-invasion film of the season,...
Collateral Damages
The hype over Captain America: Civil War has been washing over us from the fan conventions and the parts of Europe where the movie...
Marital Tate
The Proposal makes an instructive contract with Management, the film that opened and promptly closed last month. Both movies are about the romantic...
Wakanda Forever: Throw Up the X
When I reviewed Black Panther, I said that we hadn’t seen the limits of what Ryan Coogler could do. Surely Black Panther: Wakanda Forever represents...
Hit & Run: Dax a Lot
Dax Shepard became famous as one of Ashton Kutcher’s crew of pranksters on the now-defunct TV show Punk’d before settling into a career of...
Shape of Water: God and Monster
You know that Guillermo Del Toro is Mexican, and his latest cinematic fairy tale The Shape of Water is set in America, but watching...
