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One Missed Call is yet another PG-13 horror movie adapted from a Japanese source. Taken in concert with The Ring, one has to wonder if these productions illustrate some subconscious fear of technology felt by the Japanese. First, they're being me...

By some accounts, the event forming the basis of One Night in Miami may have happened. If it did, however, nothing is known about what was said when four black icons of the 20th century gathered following the unexpected boxing victory of Cassi...

If one were to take The Purge, Before Sunrise, and After Hours and throw them into a blender, the result might look something like One Night Only, a hybrid dark comedy/rom-com that never goes quite as far as it should but ends up being likable non...

True-life stories of heroism and sacrifice are commonplace; good movies about those stories aren’t. Only the Brave recounts the tale of The Granite Mountain Hotshots and the challenges they faced when fighting wildfires during the years leadi...

Pixar has run out of material for sequels, so it’s back to the drawing board and the creation of original films with the hope that one or more of them will develop a strong enough following to warrant follow-ups down the line. Onward, the fi...

Whatever his faults as a filmmaker may be, Kevin Costner certainly understands the Western. Although Open Range is not on the same level as Dances with Wolves, it's a respectable effort that is only slightly marred by the unnecessarily protracted ...

Open Water, the second feature from director Chris Kentis, has been compared to both Jaws and The Blair Witch Project. That latter comparison is an apt one; the former is not. Aside from one coincident element - both movies feature sharks - there...

Spoilers for those who don’t know much about history.Operating Finale is an historically-based thriller that follows a group of Nazi hunters as they identify, stalk, capture, and debrief Adolf Eichmann (Ben Kingsley) in Argentina during 196...

With Oppenheimer, director Christopher Nolan steps away from the action/adventure core that has been his bread-and-butter and opts instead to channel his inner David Lean. Despite being overlong and unevenly paced, Oppenheimer contains moments of ...

The turning point in Christina Ricci's career came when she chose to appear in Ang Lee's The Ice Storm. Since then, nothing has been the same for the up-and-coming performer. Before the 1997 feature, Ricci had turned up in host of bland, family-o...