Warfare is a Hard-Hitting, Brutally Real War Film
★ ★ ★ ★ Warfare is an intense film and does its damndest to immerse you in the impossible situation its soldiers find themselves in. The script is written from pieced-together memories of a real-life SEAL team. As such, it’s a hard-hitting, brutal true story. There is no cinematic score. Just hyper-realistic sound design that pulls you right in, grabs you by the throat…
Drop is an Absurdly Entertaining Thriller
★ ★ ★ There are a lot of things in Drop that defy logic and reason. Really, you’ll have to turn your brain off and just enjoy the ride. Fortunately, excellent acting, a well-paced script and solid directing help you do exactly that. Violet (Meghann Fahy) is on her first date in more than 10 years. It’s taken her quite a while to rejoin the dating scene…
A Minecraft Movie Mines Nostalgia, Misses the Mark
★ ½ A Minecraft Movie is based on the video game phenomena that has captured the imagination and creativity of gamers, young and old, since its official release in November 2011. In the game, you’re Steve, a character dressed in a light blue t-shirt and dark blue pants. Uniformed blocks of materials surround you and you break them to make tools and materials…
Hell of a Summer, Hella Boring
★ Hell of a Summer is a summer camp horror-comedy that fails to deliver scares or anything generally funny. I truly feel bad for the actors, who do a moderately good job of making do with what they’re given: a bland script with the most basic of plots, bad dialogue and zero character development. When someone is slashed on film…
The Woman in the Yard Finds a Seat but Not the Horror
★ ★ There’s probably a very good movie somewhere in The Woman in the Yard, but this film manages to not find it. Despite a few highlights, namely solid acting and great cinematography, this is pretty boring horror. The scariest parts of the movie are when the Woman (Okwui Okpokwasili), shrouded in all black…
A Working Man is a Messy Job Site that Just Punches the Clock
★ ★ A Working Man stars Jason Statham as Levon Cade, a construction foreman who is very close with the company owners Joe Garcia (Michael Peña), wife Carla (Noemi Gonzalez) and their 19-year-old daughter Jenny (Arianna Rivas). In action movies like this, where a guy works a blue collar job…
Death of a Unicorn Embraces its Absurdity and Delivers Bloody Good Mythical Fun
★ ★ ★ I didn’t expect to like Death of a Unicorn as much as I did. It’s a campy, dark comedy, fantasy horror film. This movie works, because it doesn’t try to do too much. It knows it’s not important and seems comfortable with its role as mindless entertainment. It’s just a film about a dad and his daughter…
The Assessment is Fueled by Strong Performances and Slow-Burn Tension
★ ★ ★ ½ The Assessment tells a futuristic story about a couple who wants to have a child in a world destroyed by environmental disaster. There is a part of society that lives better, separating themselves from what they call “the old world.” In this new world, people are forced to take a form of…
Ash Proves You Don’t Have to Break New Ground to Land Decent Horror
★ ★ ★ If you strip Ash down to its bare bones, you have a straightforward slasher film on a foreign planet. But this movie has some meat on it with fleshed-out characters, decent psychological horror and a well-written script. It’s also bloody and gory, sure to please horror aficionados as it earns every bit…
Snow White is a Live Action Remake that Fails to Enchant
★ ½ Snow White is the latest in Disney’s live action remakes. While some of their remakes have been moderately decent, they’re generally unnecessary. Often, the original outshines the new. Snow White, while it has some fun moments, doesn’t really advance the argument for these redos…
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