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28 Years Later, the third film in the zombie-influenced series begun in 2002 with 28 Days Later and continued in 2007 with 28 Weeks Later, is a mix of generic and inspired elements. Only the unevenness of the proceedings and the lack of a clean en...

Watching A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, I found myself desperately wanting to like it. The leads, Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie, are photogenic and share just the right kind of chemistry. The romantic elements tread a fine line between solemnity ...

Watching A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, I found myself desperately wanting to like it. The leads, Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie, are photogenic and share just the right kind of chemistry. The romantic elements tread a fine line between solemnity ...

Taut, relentless, and uncompromising, A House of Dynamite’s greatest strength is its sense of plausibility. Stripped bare of a Hollywood ending, some will find the film’s trajectory grim and unsatisfying. Indeed, there really isn’t an ending...

Expectations can be an unfortunate thing. Over the years, my fondness for Ben Affleck’s 2016 thriller, The Accountant, has not waned so, when I learned that the character was returning for another outing after a nine-year gap, I was hopeful. Ala...

Had The Alto Knights been made a little more than a quarter-century ago, it would likely have generated interest and excitement, even if the end result isn’t deserving of either. After all, back in the late 1990s, director Barry Levinson was nea...

If you’re looking for a fun, revenge-oriented thriller, The Amateur doesn’t deliver. (Go check out John Wick instead.) If the goal is to find a modern-day spy story, you won’t find that here, either. (Consider streaming the vastly superior S...

It’s never a good sign when you’re checking your watch and the movie isn’t even half over. Unfortunately, that’s the case with Anemone, the directorial debut of Ronan Day-Lewis, which also marks the screen return of the now-unretired Danie...

When it comes to simple favors, the last thing that we need is another one. It would have been different if the first film, 2018’s A Simple Favor, had been deserving of a sequel rather than being just another failed comedy/thriller that only a fe...

Ash doesn’t claim to be a re-imagining of John Carpenter’s version of The Thing, but one would have at least expected some sort of credit to be given to the 1982 movie. The earlier film’s DNA is so deeply infused into this production that it...