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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...

The Adam Project has much in common with last year’s Shawn Levy/Ryan Reyolds collaboration, Free Guy (notably the somewhat questionable “science” content in the sci-fi tapestry and well as some dubious plot points), but this film has a more ...

You don’t have to look too far or to deep to find the similarities among writer/director Andrew Niccol’s three science fiction films (I’m ignoring The Host, which is more Stephanie Meyer than Niccol). Like Gattaca and In Time, Anon boas...

Army of the Dead isn’t director Zack Snyder’s first dance with the undead. His feature debut, 2004’s Dawn of the Dead, had him remaking the George A. Romero horror classic. 17 years later, after spending a significant portion of his film...

Awake does too little with its Twilight Zone-inspired premise. After racing through the introductory segments, Mark Raso’s feature turns into a dystopian road movie (not unlike Greenland) with the characters traveling to reach a potential ha...

Those wacky Coens are at it again. And those serious Coens. And those loquacious Coens. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, a paean to pre-revisionist Westerns, allows the Oscar-winning brothers to try out nearly every weapon in their considerable ...

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, the fourth installment in the Beverly Hills Cop franchise, understands what made the 1984 original (and its first sequel) successful and leans heavily into those strengths although some elements don’t play as well in t...

60 years after her untimely death, Marilyn Monroe retains her mystique and mystery. Arguably the movie industry’s biggest female star and the progenitor of the modern sex symbol, the “real” Marilyn (born Norma Jean Mortenson then baptize...

Close feels like many of the numerous direct-to-DVD titles that were prevalent during the 2000s. High on action and low on logic, those movies were made quickly and for little money to satisfy an audience whose expectations were for 90 minutes...

The decision to release The Cloverfield Project direct-to-streaming (DTS?) is not only a glimpse of how the future may look for middle-budget movies but a win-win for Paramount Pictures and Netflix. The studio has found a way to offload a whit...