Good Fortune Delivers Laughs, Wings, and a Little Grace

Good Fortune Delivers Laughs, Wings, and a Little Grace

Good Fortune ★ ★ ★ Good Fortune is written and directed by comedian Aziz Ansari, who also stars as down-on-his-luck Arj. Ansari explores a concept similar to Trading Places where a Wall Street commodities broker named Louis (Dan Aykroyd) trades places with a street...
Black Phone 2 Rings Twice, Still Terrifies

Black Phone 2 Rings Twice, Still Terrifies

Black Phone 2 ★ ★ ★ Black Phone 2 is a throwback to 1980s horror, calling up a new kind of terror that fuses the nightmares of A Nightmare on Elm Street with the brutality of Friday the 13th. While both are arguably slasher films, here we’re treated to a far more...
Tron: Ares Uploads Ambition, Deletes Emotion

Tron: Ares Uploads Ambition, Deletes Emotion

Tron: Ares ★ ★ ½ Tron: Ares, the latest in Disney’s neon-lit series, once again zaps users into The Grid—a sleek, digital battleground where light trails and nostalgia collide. It’s the second sequel and we’re familiar with the premise—yet we’re given a convoluted,...
Roofman Drops in on an Out of Reach Ordinary Life

Roofman Drops in on an Out of Reach Ordinary Life

Roofman ★ ★ ★ ½ Roofman is based on the true story of Jeffrey “Jeff” Manchester, a Charlotte, N.C., man who notoriously robbed an unknown number of McDonald’s and other fast-food restaurants by breaking in through the roof. As an underemployed, divorced Navy veteran...
Bone Lake Flirts With Temptation but Never Entices

Bone Lake Flirts With Temptation but Never Entices

Bone Lake ★ ★ ½ Bone Lake is a thriller that explores temptation in a relationship already being tested—with metaphors so on the nose even Pinocchio would be jealous. This is a film with a great deal of missed opportunities with intriguing ideas that, had they been...