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Predator 2
(1990)
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Matthew Gilbert
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The tensions between Glover, streetwise cop, and Busey, slick agent, are the stuff of failed TV pilots.
Posted Oct 30, 2025
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Predator
(1987)
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Jay Carr
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The problem with "Predator" is it just isn't a very good movie. The attempts at characterization are crude, the shards of humor that have effectively punctuated previous Schwarzenegger outings don't work.
Posted Oct 30, 2025
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Rebel Without a Cause
(1955)
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Marjory Adams
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Unfortunately the story is just as confused as the character, with the result that the Warner Brothers film is astounding without being at all convincing; shocking without making you believe it's true for an instant.
Posted Oct 24, 2025
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2/4
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Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
(2025)
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Odie Henderson
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From the start of Cooper’s screenplay, the clichés get ticked off like clockwork, which is a shame because there’s an interesting movie trapped inside this one.
Posted Oct 22, 2025
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3.5/4
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Blue Moon
(2025)
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Odie Henderson
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Robert Kaplow’s screenplay overflows with spiteful shade throwing and theater in-jokes, which makes it pure cinematic catnip for yours truly. He mixes fact with speculation, and the results are better than most biopics.
Posted Oct 22, 2025
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4/4
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Frankenstein
(2025)
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Odie Henderson
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This is a horror movie, but it’s also a heartbreaking tale of forced existence and the subsequent quest for answers. And it’s one of the year’s best movies.
Posted Oct 22, 2025
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Dracula
(1979)
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Bruce McCabe
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Despite a heroic effort by Frank Langella to redeem "Dracula," the film's misconceptions and failures in execution defeat it.
Posted Oct 21, 2025
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3/4
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Urchin
(2025)
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Odie Henderson
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Dillane is onscreen for the entire film, and he gives a performance that will stick with you long after the symbolism-laced last scene.
Posted Oct 17, 2025
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3/4
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Good Fortune
(2025)
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Odie Henderson
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The two K’s— Keke and Keanu — elevate the familiar plotlines of “Good Fortune” with their excellent, heartfelt work.
Posted Oct 17, 2025
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2/4
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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
(2025)
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Odie Henderson
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It’s a daring choice to force audiences to spend 2 hours with someone they won’t like, but “If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You” is more of an experiment than an empathy machine. It overstays its welcome by at least 30 minutes.
Posted Oct 17, 2025
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1/4
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After the Hunt
(2025)
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Odie Henderson
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Art is supposed to provoke. But for Pete’s sake, it doesn’t have to be this obvious and sloppy.
Posted Oct 17, 2025
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3.5/4
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Kiss of the Spider Woman
(2025)
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Odie Henderson
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As for Lopez, this is the star turn she was born to play. She makes Sergio Trujillo’s choreography look effortless. Her looks range from the extreme Louise Brooks bob of her spider-costumed title character to a coif so blonde that it glows.
Posted Oct 17, 2025
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Re-Animator
(1985)
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Jay Carr
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A genre standout, its future as a midnight staple for the strong-of-stomach seems assured.
Posted Oct 16, 2025
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Stephen King's It
(1990)
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Ed Siegel
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"It" is unmitigated, unrelenting, unrepenting boredom.
Posted Oct 14, 2025
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Desert Hearts
(1985)
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Jay Carr
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It's a Reno where metaphor thrives -- hearts as deserts, love as a gamble, roads and rail-road tracks as emblems of transience, cloudbursts and showers as burst dams of sexuality.
Posted Oct 12, 2025
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3.5/5
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The Celluloid Closet
(1995)
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Jay Carr
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One of the surprising things about this entertaining and informative documentary about movies and homosexuality is how much was right there in plain view.
Posted Oct 08, 2025
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The Celluloid Closet
(1995)
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Frederic M. Biddle
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The Celluloid Closet does more than rant, although it rants righteously. Affectionately, the documentary gives due to what gay visibility there was, even if gay characters met tragic ends.
Posted Oct 08, 2025
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2.5/4
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TRON: Ares
(2025)
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Odie Henderson
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“Tron: Ares” makes a crucial mistake by bringing the virtual world of the franchise into reality. The carnage that gets created by these light-trailing, impenetrable vehicles of destruction turns the film into a Marvel movie.
Posted Oct 07, 2025
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2/4
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Roofman
(2025)
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Odie Henderson
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Tatum’s sparkling charm can only take him so far; the script, by Cianfrance and Kirt Gunn, spends way too much time on a romantic subplot filled with sitcom scenarios and uninteresting characters.
Posted Oct 07, 2025
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Tron
(1982)
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Michael Blowen
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"Tron" is as interesting as being stuck in a video arcade without any quarters.
Posted Oct 06, 2025
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Casper
(1995)
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Jay Carr
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The techno-wizards at Industrial Light & Magic really knock themselves out here, but "Casper" is more serviceable than magical.
Posted Sep 30, 2025
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1/4
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Eleanor the Great
(2025)
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Odie Henderson
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The film is so terrified that you’ll think ill of this sweet little old lady liar that it is doomed by its cowardice.
Posted Sep 27, 2025
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2/4
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One Battle After Another
(2025)
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Odie Henderson
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This is ultimately a pointless, overlong movie that occasionally gives some crowdpleasing thrills en route to nowhere.
Posted Sep 27, 2025
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Hard Times
(1975)
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George McKinnon
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[A] low-keyed, absorbing drama of Depression-era New Orleans.
Posted Sep 25, 2025
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3/4
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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
(2025)
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Mark Feeney
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Not knowing what’s going to happen next doesn’t necessarily mean a movie will be good, but it helps -- and sure is refreshing. There’s a fair amount of emotional gear-shifting, but “Journey” gets away with it.
Posted Sep 24, 2025
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2/4
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Caught Stealing
(2025)
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Mark Feeney
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Aronofsky doesn’t respect his characters. He doesn’t disrespect them as much as he disrespected Brendan Fraser’s title character in “The Whale,” but a friend to the human condition he is not. He also doesn’t respect the audience.
Posted Sep 24, 2025
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Boogie Nights
(1997)
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Jay Carr
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There was little in Paul Thomas Anderson's debut feature, Hard Eight, to prepare us for the confidence, exuberance, and sheer panache of his surprise -- and surprising -- Boogie Nights... It's a hunka hunka burnin' celluloid.
Posted Sep 24, 2025
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To Sleep With Anger
(1990)
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Jay Carr
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It's a rich, layered performance, quite the best Glover has been allowed to bring to the screen.
Posted Sep 23, 2025
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Hard Eight
(1996)
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Jay Carr
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The dialogue has the requisite crispness, although Anderson's plotting is patchy. Still, Hard Eight is a flavorful little mood piece, insinuatingly acted.
Posted Sep 22, 2025
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3/4
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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
(2025)
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Odie Henderson
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It’s not as fall-down funny nor as fresh as the original, but there are enough chuckles and musical performances to make this sequel worth seeing.
Posted Sep 18, 2025
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3/4
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The Long Walk
(2025)
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Odie Henderson
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Lawrence wisely casts this film with charismatic actors who make the time pass quickly. Most of this movie is just a bunch of actors walking, with random bursts of gore and death. The chemistry between Jonsson and Hoffman carries the movie
Posted Sep 18, 2025
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0.5/4
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HIM
(2025)
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Odie Henderson
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Somebody should have told the filmmakers that a football spinning on the ground is only terrifying to the team that fumbled it.
Posted Sep 18, 2025
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Night of the Living Dead
(1990)
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Jay Carr
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Because Savini obviously feels a responsibility to the original, it's impossible for this new film to unfold with any sense of discovery or surprise.
Posted Sep 17, 2025
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Darkman III: Die Darkman Die
(1996)
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Michael Blowen
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One "Darkman" was enough. This one substitutes effects for character development, and it's a poor trade-off.
Posted Sep 15, 2025
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Darkman II: The Return of Durant
(1995)
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Michael Blowen
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For crazed horror fans only.
Posted Sep 12, 2025
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3.5/4
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Toy Story
(1995)
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Tom Russo
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Seeing the imagery dimensionalized subtly adds to the already tangible curviness of Woody and Buzz's molded plastic world.
Posted Sep 09, 2025
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Toy Story
(1995)
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Jay Carr
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Like the perennial ballet, it has instant classic written all over it and will be popped into VCR's and laser-disc players for years to come.
Posted Sep 09, 2025
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This Is Spinal Tap
(1984)
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Jay Carr
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What Reiner and the twits in this hilariously clunky band sustain in "Spinal Tap" is a heady flow of brilliant stupidity.
Posted Sep 04, 2025
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This Is Spinal Tap
(1984)
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Steve Morse
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The film is a giddy, uncannily accurate view of a business full of poseurs and cartoon characters.
Posted Sep 04, 2025
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The Thursday Murder Club
(2025)
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Lisa Weidenfeld
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It’s a shame. The book is quite fun, and they’ve assembled a dynamite cast, but there’s too much lost here in the effort to cram it into a two-hour movie. If only they’d turned it into a miniseries.
Posted Aug 29, 2025
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Darkman
(1990)
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Jay Carr
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It's one of the great comic-strip movies.
Posted Aug 25, 2025
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3.5/4
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DEVO
(2024)
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Odie Henderson
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This entertaining and informative documentary just might make you a fan as well.
Posted Aug 22, 2025
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2/4
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Ne Zha II
(2025)
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Odie Henderson
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Since the animation looked stunning, I went in with intense curiosity. I emerged 145 minutes later confused and nursing one of the worst headaches I’ve had in decades.
Posted Aug 22, 2025
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1/4
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Honey Don't!
(2025)
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Odie Henderson
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The title answers the question of whether you should see this uninvolving neo-noir from Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke.
Posted Aug 22, 2025
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Mortal Kombat
(1995)
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Betsy Sherman
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The result has a pleasing, unpretentious B-movie verve, putting a new sheen on the old-time Saturday-matinee serial.
Posted Aug 20, 2025
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Cooley High
(1975)
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George McKinnon
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"Cooley High" is not a "social document," except, perhaps, subliminally. Mainly, it is an entertainment, and a bright, fresh, satisfying one.
Posted Aug 15, 2025
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3/4
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Nobody 2
(2025)
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Odie Henderson
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Thankfully, this sequel isn’t as lazy as the folks who came up with its title. Kolstad and his co-writer, Aaron Rabin, create a smart plotline for Hutch that mixes ultraviolence with genuine emotion.
Posted Aug 14, 2025
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High and Low
(1963)
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Marjory Adams
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[High and Low] is a fine detective story, and it describes in fascinating, if somewhat too lengthy, detail the tedious but gradually tightening net which enmeshes a particularly clever kidnaper.
Posted Aug 13, 2025
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High and Low
(1963)
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Jay Carr
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In its deceptively leisurely way, it moves from engrossing to devastating, and it reverberates with insights not only on the contemporary world, but on Kurosawa's inner world as well.
Posted Aug 13, 2025
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3/4
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My Mother's Wedding
(2023)
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Odie Henderson
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“My Mother’s Wedding” neatly juxtaposes its subplots with the joyous event that serves as its centerpiece. The wedding allows Scott Thomas to bring in several minor characters for an effective moment or two.
Posted Aug 13, 2025
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