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Cooper Raiff's second film, Cha Cha Real Smooth is a work that flirts with greatness and finds some phenomenal moments of higher...

This review may contain spoilers. This is almost a classic exemplar of a film perfectly crafted for yours truly. Almost. It has been...

To be completely honest, I watched the entirety of Red Rocket with a growing sense of disgust. No, that's not even the word for it....

Look, I'm just gonna drop the sparring jabs and go right for the combination: A select FEW screenplays have been better than this in the...

This review may contain spoilers. Titane is a wildly demented ride consisting of equal parts psychopathic violence and wide-eyed,...

Chungking Express is just a freaking masterpiece from Wong Kar-Wai. The first time I saw this film, it intrigued and moved me. But this...

Somewhere deep in the hills and forests of Oregon, off the beaten path, lives a solitary truffle hunter. Actually, in point of fact, the...

Ah, middle school. We remember it well, don’t we? The time of growth that it contained for us. Puberty (yikes!). Nascent feelings of...

On this week in May 35 years ago, a little high-wire jet flying, cockpit action stunting, oiled up volleyball playing, classically...

Vitalina Varela was my first introduction into the incomparable lyrical world of Pedro Costa. It will not be my last. This is a story...

Hypothetically speaking, you could turn a corner down a short foyer hallway and enter a crowded, bustling table. The din would hit you...

"Sometimes the fix isn’t really the fix." - @Scott Sipling Sometimes the fix, ironically, only points us to the source of the problem. To...

I was overwhelmed by two competing, if complementary, thoughts at the conclusion of Nomadland. The first was in regards to its director,...

This review may contain spoilers. There are some people that will see this merely as a "message movie." A liberal grenade lobbed over the...

This review spoils a few plot points. It is not often that we get a film which simultaneously functions both as a vehicle for an...

*This review spoils one major scene. There is a part of me that found The Assistant to be, if not dull, at least slow and plodding. It...

This review may contain spoilers. Aubrey Plaza is a FORCE. OF. NATURE. A human dynamo of passion, vivacity, and snarky self-confidence so...

Three Billboards is NOT a perfect film. It can actually be argued pretty convincingly that it’s riddled with inconsistencies. Many of the...

Much like Lanthimos’ The Lobster the previous year, I cannot even begin to recommend this film to a wide audience. It’s not about...

This was my best picture of 2016. Now, I’m not sure if it says something rather morbid about me that I’ve selected such a “downer” for...