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It’s said that the sports movie format works best when telling a true story. Director James Mangold, after having spent some time in the X-Men universe (he helmed both The Wolverine and Logan), has returned to the real world to direct two A-...

For many years, Disney resisted the urge to craft big-budget sequels to popular animated films. During the “second wave” years of the 1990s, a cottage industry was born whereby cut-rate direct-to-home video follow-ups were made but the stu...

While the makers of Gemini Man may have had aspirations for this to begin a new sci-fi action franchise, the would-be series doesn’t get off to the most inspiring of starts. At its best, the movie feels like a superhero/spy movie hybrid with...

There’s a method to the madness of first-time director Ninian Doff, and also a message in that madness. A survival-of-the-fittest comedy set in Scotland’s Highlands, Get Duked! (née Boyz in the Wood) illustrates that a traditional horror ...

There’s something enormously refreshing about the openness and honesty found in Keith Behrman’s coming-of-age film, Giant Little Ones. It recognizes that for many people, discovering a sexual identity isn’t as simple as recognizing an att...

The best element of M. Night Shyamalan’s 2017 horror film, Split – and one of the few things it did right – happened at the very end. The brief, surprising reveal of Bruce Willis reprising his David Dunn character from Unbreakable create...

We don’t see many movies like Gloria Bell these days. Simple, adult character studies with major stars have become a rarity in today’s movie climate. Gloria Bell is sedate in its approach – it tells a story but the narrative is devoid of ...

Emerging from the loud, overlong spectacle that is Godzilla: King of the Monsters, I was struck by the disheartening realization that what I had just seen owed more to Transformers than kaiju. Although the movie takes great pains to pay homage ...

If one was to judge The Goldfinch on the basis of John Crowley’s motion picture adaptation, confusion would be understandable about why the novel is so beloved and acclaimed. Even given ideal circumstances, Donna Tartt’s book, which relies...

Considering his involvement in Superbad, it’s not surprising to see Seth Rogen’s name in the list of Good Boys’ producers. In terms of intent and tone, the films have a lot in common, even if the latter production focuses on characters a...