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Wildling starts out strongly but the qualities that make the first 20 minutes engrossing and harrowing drain away and the movie morphs into a thoroughly unsatisfying excursion into fantasy-tinged horror. As directed by first time feature film...

Winter Passing is a classic example of a pedestrian motion picture being lifted out of mediocrity by an arresting lead performance. Zooey Deschanel doesn't just elevate Winter Passing; she carries it. There are other things to be said in favor of...

To like Wolf Creek, you have to be a horror fan - or a parent desperate to drive home the advice not to speak to strangers. I'm a little mystified by the strong negative reaction the film has received in some quarters. Based on the response of so...

The Woman in Black is as traditional a ghost story as is likely to be found in today's marketplace. All the elements are in place: an isolated, gothic mansion on the moors, mysterious deaths, a graveyard, an apparition in black whose appearances co...

Note: This review contains spoilers. If you wish to have a virgin movie-going experience, return to the review after having seen the film. For obvious reasons, there aren't many movies about pedophiles or pedophilia. To date, the best-known of ...

Nicholas Sparks wasn't involved with the development of The Words, but he might as well have been. There's a distinctly "Sparks-ian" feel to the movie, and its awkward framing device recalls the one from The Notebook. In fact, structure more than t...

Is there romance in the afterlife? Does the heart still burn with yearning after it no longer beats? Wristcutters: A Love Story, with a title that easily passes the "truth in advertising" test, would like us to believe so. While the landscape may...

Certain historical periods provide rich and varied soil for the cultivation of motion picture storylines. The twilight of the Roman Empire is one. The American Civil War is another. World War II marks a third. And a fourth is the Chinese "Cultu...

You Don’t Nomi is a 2019 documentary that takes a fond look back at the deservedly derided Paul Vehoeven/Joe Eszterhas box office bomb, Showgirls. Although director Jeffrey McHale approaches the retrospective from a decidedly subjective poin...

Your Name, the 2016 animated film from Makoto Shinkai, was a critical and commercial success in its native Japan, where it became the fourth-highest grossing film of all time and second highest-grossing anime (behind Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirite...