<p>Like <em>Gravity</em> and <em>Interstellar</em> before it, <em>The Martian</em> gets to position itself as an Oscar bait movie, despite really just being a summer blockbuster. I...
<p>Scorch Trials follows in the current pattern of young adult fiction that just tries to be every story every. It is adolescent in every way: Not adult enough to do justice to its plot, but too worri...
<p>At its outset Pay the Ghost is just you average paranormal ghost movie, although Nic Cage’s mere presence changed my expectations from the start. As it goes on it get closer and closer to hopping t...
<p>A movie about the effects of the American mortgage crisis on the Chinese market? And it’s a musical about love? I’m in.</p><p><em>Office</em> nails something that Hollywood’s been struggling w...
<p>Beyond its fact and ideas, <em>Peace Officer</em> succeeds as a movie for the way it thoroughly breaks down the actual crime scenes of the specific events it covers.</p>...
<p>Sicario isn’t terrible, but it is very disappointing as it never delivers on its promise.</p><p>The opening sequence of Sicario is of an FBI raid on a house they’ve tied to a notable drug dealer. H...
<p>Here comes a show that reminds me that something “based on a true story” can still be great. A work that rises up to the challenge of the material it’s working with to tell a story that’s still inc...
<p>There are obvious hurdles any movie about N.W.A was going to have, but instead of solving those problems <em>Straight Outta Compton</em> just barrels forwards, resulting in a movie that just f...
<p>Fantastic Four manages to be worse than the Tim Story movies that preceded it. I mean… fuck… This makes those shitty films look like masterpieces by comparison.</p>...
<p>This is a movie about a conversation; one between interviewer and interviewee, and the baggage these two men bring to that conversation.</p>...
