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...
Night Patrol is a Frankenstein of Missed Opportunities

Night Patrol is a Frankenstein of Missed Opportunities

Night Patrol ★ ½ Night Patrol is a film with a promising premise that starts off captivating and quickly evolves into a narrative filled with missed opportunities, trading horror for confusion. It’s a gangland story where the cops are the bad guys, set around a Los...
Greenland 2: Migration Trades Urgency for Nonsense

Greenland 2: Migration Trades Urgency for Nonsense

Greenland 2: Migration ★ ½ Greenland 2: Migration feels like a movie thrown together to fill the January off-season theatrical slot. It starts off slow, and despite some nonsensical action scenes, manages to get more boring as it goes. In the previous film, the stakes...