Melania Documents Poise, Misses the Drama

Melania Documents Poise, Misses the Drama

Melania ★ ★ ★ Melania is a documentary that follows Melania Trump in January 2025 through President Donald Trump’s second inauguration. It gives us a glimpse of what it takes to be Melania as FLOTUS while she makes design decisions for the events and precise, custom...
Solo Mio Weaves Heartbreak, Healing and Love in Rome

Solo Mio Weaves Heartbreak, Healing and Love in Rome

Solo Mio ★ ★ ★ ½ Solo Mio stars Kevin James as Matt Taylor, a fourth grade art teacher who falls in love with a fellow teacher, Heather (Julie Ann Emery). As the film opens, we get a glimpse of their picturesque, late-in-life romance. They seem perfect for each other,...
Shelter Is Watchable and Predictably Statham

Shelter Is Watchable and Predictably Statham

Shelter ★ ★ ½ Shelter is an action thriller that stars Jason Statham as Mason, a former British Intelligence assassin living as a recluse in a lighthouse on the shores of Scotland. It’s a fun, capable action thriller—but also a mash-up of the best parts of other...
Send Help Turns Survival Into Corporate Reckoning

Send Help Turns Survival Into Corporate Reckoning

★ ★ ★ Send Help is like a mashup of Office Space, Cast Away and Misery. It’s an exploration of the reversal of roles. What happens when a woman is unfairly passed up for a promised promotion, the jackass son takes over the company after his father’s death, and the two...
Mercy Lacks Logic, Case Dismissed

Mercy Lacks Logic, Case Dismissed

Mercy ★ ½ Mercy kicks off its story a couple of years after an artificial intelligence justice system replaces the Los Angeles court system. The film sets itself on bad footing from the get-go, never fully explaining how LA got around constitutional due process, the...