Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones Are Tremendous in One of the Most Gorgeously Powerful Films of the Year

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Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones Are Tremendous in One of the Most Gorgeously Powerful Films of the Year

The films that feel like they’re giving you the entirety of a life, getting to the heart and soul of what it means to be a person, are few and far between, but they feel exceptional when they’re able to…

Chris Evans Is A Believable Action Star Hack In Romain Gavras’ Glib Thriller [TIFF]

There’s something almost bizarrely impressive about how little a film like “Sacrifice,” the latest from filmmaker Romain Gavras, has to say about the state of our world and yet how loudly it all continues on anyway. Despite gesturing towards urgent…

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere Review

There’s a point in Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere where Bruce’s manager, Jon Landau (Jeremy Strong), plays the tape for his latest record, Nebraska. The Columbia Records executive (David Krumholtz) doesn’t understand what Springsteen is going for. It’s a more…

Angela Bassett Proves She’s the GOAT in the Best Athena Episode To Date

One of my very favorite things that 9-1-1 does is when the show has "begins" episodes that show flashbacks from the main characters' lives to show impactful moments in their careers as first responders. These episodes are typically about them…

The franchise’s funniest film to date

One of the reasons for the surprising longevity of the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise is in its main character’s very sponginess. Along with most other characters that reside in Bikini Bottom, SpongeBob (Tom Kenny) is stretched and molded, cut up, sliced,…

A Storm at Sea Without Depth

Simon Stone’s The Woman in Cabin 10 sails into familiar waters of psychological paranoia and maritime mystery, but it never quite finds its sea legs. Adapted from Ruth Ware’s 2016 bestselling novel, the film attempts to be both a sleek,…

Kyle Chandler & Diane Lane’s Political Drama With a Killer Cast Isn’t Deep Enough

Since Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show was suspended on ABC and later reinstated in response to public outrage, concerns over the state of free speech in the U.S. have persisted. Which voices get heard and which ones are silenced have been…

Tessa Thompson Is Terrific In Nia DaCosta’s Consistently Captivating Henrik Ibsen Adaptation [TIFF]

Though it’s been a minute since she’s had a film to really sink her teeth into, “Hedda” proves you should never bet against writer-director Nia DaCosta. Taking on the Henrik Ibsen play “Hedda Gabler” and making it something entirely her…

Black Phone 2 Review | Flickreel

Scott Derrickson turned in one of the creepiest commercial horror films of recent memory with The Black Phone, which played like an adaptation of an overlooked Stephen King story. Actually, King’s son, Joe Hill, wrote the source material. Where the…

‘NCIS: Tony & Ziva’ Finally Gives Us What We’ve Asked For All Season

Tony (Michael Weatherly) and Ziva's (Cote de Pablo) days as fugitives come to an end in the satisfying finale of NCIS: Tony & Ziva. The show erred on the side of caution, leaving practically no loose ends that would demand…

English Swimming Biopic Drowns Before It Even Begins

One golden rule of a biopic is that it should probably give you more of an understanding of its subject than you had beforehand, but Vindication Swim is less cinematic than its subject's Wikipedia page. Writer-director Elliot Hasler evokes the…

Shane Black’s Stylish but Shallow Crime Caper

Shane Black’s Play Dirty promises the kind of hard-boiled, sardonic heist movie that once made him Hollywood’s sharpest screenwriter. Adapted from Donald E. Westlake’s Parker novels (written under the pseudonym Richard Stark), the film reunites Black with the familiar cocktail…

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