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I was surprised at how much I enjoyed 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. Over the years, I have grown bored with zombie movies. Watching this film, I got the sense that the same might be true of producer Danny Boyle (who directed the previous entry ...

At the time of its October 1992 release, I wrote the following about the original Candyman (which was directed by Bernard Rose based on a story by Clive Barker): “Candyman is one of the most intelligent and chilling movies to grace the scree...

With some "mockumentaries" (or "meta-documentaries", "pseudo-documentaries", or whatever else you want to call them), it's best not to know beforehand that they're fakes. The opposite is true of Forgotten Silver, an inventive and wily project ma...

Last Breath has epic potential but opts instead to present its gritty survival story with as little fat as possible – so little, in fact, that it cuts too close to the bone at times. Based on a true story, it tracks its documentary source materi...

The Marvels is so poorly conceived and ineptly executed that it not only makes this a front-runner for the dubious honor of worst movie of the MCU but a contender for the worst superhero movie of all time (although I’d argue that Catwoman retain...

Science Fair is one of those documentaries where a “making of” feature might be as interesting as the actual film. That’s not to cast aspersions on the movie, which paints a lively portrait of several participants in the 2017 (ISEF Inter...

There are countless ways a motion picture can address themes of loss and grief. While one can at least give Tara Miele’s Wander Darkly props for trying something different, the film’s success is questionable at best. In trying to blend a T...

It’s rare that a movie can shock with its timelessness, but Z is such a film – no less relevant today than when Costa-Gavras made it in 1969. In his contemporaneous review, Roger Ebert said the following: “It is a film of our time. It is ...