EDDIE THE EAGLE (2016)
Sometimes, formulaic films can just be exactly what we need, and Eddie the Eagle is one of those films. While watching it, you’ll be...
ZOOTROPOLIS (2016)
Even if you disregard the relatively consistent quality of its Pixar co-productions, Disney itself has been on a hot streak with animated features over...
THE CLUB / EL CLUB (2015)
Recently crowned Best Picture at the Oscars, Spotlight detailed the uncovering of the shocking child sex scandal associated with the Catholic Church. While that...
THE WITCH (2015)
I wasn’t surprised to learn that The Witch’s writer-director, Robert Eggers, is from New England (his hometown is Lee, New Hampshire, about an hour from...
KUNG FU PANDA 3 (2016)
Whether or not this is the farewell for this under-appreciated animated series is uncertain, but Kung Fu Panda 3 provides a conclusive finale that...
THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT (2016)
Identity and the search for self play an integral role in the structure of good YA fiction. It’s therefore as ironic as it is...
CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON: SWORD OF DESTINY (2016)
For all its critical and commercial success back in 2000, Ang Lee’s martial arts epic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon doesn’t get talked about all...
SUFFRAGETTE (2015)
Wonder Woman is a child of the suffragette movement. The symbols we associate with her strength and power belonged to the American feminists who...
SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE (2015)
Sleeping with Other People was self-deprecatingly pitched by its own writer-director as “When Harry Met Sally for assholes” when it debuted at Sundance. Yet...
THE FINEST HOURS (2016)
With Brooklyn, Carol, and now The Finest Hours, films set in 1952 are having a bit of a moment. Here, the story being told...
DEADPOOL (2016)
Let’s start with the good news: this version of Deadpool is a hundred times more entertaining than the first outing for the offbeat superhero,...
PRIDE & PREJUDICE & ZOMBIES (2016)
Based both on Jane Austen’s classic Pride & Prejudice and Seth Grahame-Smith’s parody novel of the same name—adding re-animated corpses into the equation—Pride & Prejudice...