A no-nonsense Alan Ritchson leads Patrick Hughes’ military action and sci-fi thriller combo.
Maggie Gyllenhaal goes for a radical take on the Bride of Frankenstein story but comes up short.
Director Andrew Stanton’s second foray into a live-action feature has once again failed to recapture the same moviemaking magic seen in his superior Pixar animated features.
Set against the procedural urgency of the adults who surround her, a little girl’s search for reassurance becomes an ordeal in itself.
Óliver Laxe’s directorial control denies comfort and bends both characters and viewers to ordeals that feel less staged than inescapable.
Crime 101 tells a very familiar story, but proves that things that aren’t broken don’t need to be fixed.
Writer-director Emerald Fennell magnifies the themes of sex, obsession and destructive love in this passionate but surprisingly hollow romantic drama.
What distinguishes Birds of War from many documentaries about Syria is its refusal to separate the political from the personal.
Josephine is a film that demands empathy and rewards the viewer with a profound understanding of the resilience of children and the limitations of the people who protect them.
The documentary closes on a quietly devastating observation. Immigration policy, for all its bureaucratic language, ultimately communicates something far more intimate.