Reviews
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (Michael Bay - 2016) Movie Review
Now I never thought that the following words would be in a review that I would write; 13 Hours is director Michael Bay's most politically ambivalent yet.
The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper - 2015) Movie Review
The Danish Girl underscores that in about 90 years, society collectively remains in a state of arrested development with transgender issues.
The Big Short (Adam McKay - 2015) Movie Review
...the very best that a satire can hope to achieve.
Joy (David O. Russell - 2015) Movie Review
For the all the uplifting and inspirational moments of Joy's determination portrayed throughout the film, there's an overwhelming sense of emptiness that we've ultimately watched a film advocating the American consumerist dream.
Anomalisa (Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman - 2015) Movie Review
Anomalisa is an impressive technical feat and another Kaufman film that grows like a virus in your subconscious.
Triple 9 (John Hillcoat - 2016) Movie Review
Triple 9 is undercooked.
10 Cloverfield Lane (Dan Trachtenberg - 2016) Movie Review
10 Cloverfield Lane is fun vacation into paranoia fallout; now you'll have to see it to find out why.
THE WITCH (Robert Eggers - 2016) Movie Review
"I heard a Satanist walking out of the film say, 'this is my Star Wars.'""Really?!""No, of course not."
Hail, Caesar! (Ethan Coen & Joel Coen - 2016) Review
Watching Hail, Caesar! as a classic cinephile, you're going to have a whale of a time; if you're not, you'll probably only manage a snicker.
The Martian (Ridley Scott - 2015) Movie Review
I like my "alone in space" movies to be far weirder and more cerebral than The Martian. Scott or Damon can stay on Mars; fly me to to Sam Rockwell and the Moon or directly into the Sun with Danny Boyle.
Deadpool (Tim Miller - 2016) Movie Review
Deadpool is to the superhero genre what Shane Black's Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang is to Detective Noir and Hollywood.
Spotlight (Tom McCarthy - 2015) Movie Review
Spotlight is an advertorial for journalistic objectivity and integrity in the face of abject perversion.
The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino - 2015) Movie Review
The Hateful Eight is easily Tarantino's most fierce and contemporary film to date.
Youth (Paolo Sorrentino – 2015) Movie Review
Sorrentino's Youth is sublime.
Creed (Ryan Coogler – 2015) Movie Review
If Rocky was a K.O, Creed is a T.K.O
The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer – 2015) Movie Review
Don't get it twisted, The Look of Silence will disturb you...
Kingsman: The Secret Service (Matthew Vaughn - 2015) Movie Review
An ultra violent, entertaining and endlessly re-watchable fun movie.
REVIEW: The Drop (Michael R. Roskam - 2014)
The Drop is a beautiful, tense thing to behold and a fitting film to bookend James Gandolfini’s career.
REVIEW: Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy - 2014)
Nightcrawler is American Psycho for a new generation.
REVIEW: Gone Girl (David Fincher - 2014)
David Fincher is the king of unsettling cinema. He’s an architect of dread and he manages to build something so entirely creepy and disturbing with Gone Girl that it makes Se7en feel like The Notebook. Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike are his partners in crime – quite literally – and their performances should generate deserved awards season buzz.