Movie Review: ‘Hamilton’
In May 2016, I managed to convince my wife that we should deplete the majority of our savings account in order to fly ...
Movie Reviews
Movie Review: ‘Irresistible’
Written and directed by former Daily Show host Jon Stewart, Irresistible turns a playful yarn about a small-town mayoral race into an indictment ...
TV Reviews
TV Review: ‘Hollywood’
Stuffed to the gills with great performances and spectacular production design, Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood — arriving on Netflix this weekend — posits a ...
Movie Reviews
Movie Review: ‘The Hunt’
Originally scheduled to hit theaters last fall, The Hunt became mired in controversy shortly after the release of its first trailer, which featured ...
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Movie Review: ‘The Way Back’
Director Gavin O’Connor is no stranger to sports dramas, with two superbly crafted genre entries already under his belt (2004’s Miracle and 2011’s ...
Movie Review: ‘Onward’
Despite what Sonic the Hedgehog might have you think, family films don’t have to be full of bad jokes, cringe-worthy dialogue and product ...
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Movie Review: ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’
In last year’s Uncut Gems, Dinah (Idina Menzel) tells estranged husband Howard (Adam Sandler) “you’re the most annoying person I’ve ever met.” It’s ...
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Movie Review: ‘Birds of Prey’
Warner Bros. got off to a shaky start with some of the early films in their DC Extended Universe: Batman v Superman: Dawn ...
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Sundance 2020 Movie Review: ‘The Last Thing He Wanted’
Three years ago, Dees Rees wowed audiences at the Sundance Film Festival with Mudbound, a haunting examination of racial and familial relations in ...
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Sundance 2020 Movie Review: ‘Downhill’
Adrift in the complacency of long-term marriage, Pete (Will Ferrell) and Billie (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) embark on a vacation to an upscale European ski ...
Sundance 2020 Movie Review: ‘Promising Young Woman’
Once upon a time, Cassie (Carey Mulligan) was a med school student at the top of her class, but dropped out after a ...
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Sundance 2020 Movie Review: ‘Zola’
To the best of my knowledge, I’ve never seen a film based on a series of Tweets before today, but Aziah “Zola” Wells’ ...
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Movie Review: ‘The Gentlemen’
Writer-director Guy Ritchie burst onto the scene at the end of the millennium with a pair of densely-plotted gangster comedies, 1998’s Lock, Stock ...
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Movie Review: ‘Dolittle’
The story of John Dolittle, a physician with a unique ability to understand and communicate with animals, has gone through numerous adaptations for ...
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Movie Review: ‘Bad Boys for Life’
The fact that Bad Boys for Life actually made it to the big screen feels like a small miracle. The previous film, Bad ...
TV Review: ‘The Witcher’
The sprawling fantasy world of The Witcher is probably best known from its critically acclaimed videogame adaptations, but Geralt of Rivia was first ...
Features
Brent’s Top 15 Films of 2019
2019 has been marked by several major cinematic events, including the release of Avengers: Endgame, which capped off nearly a decade of Marvel ...
Movie Reviews
Movie Review: ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’
Two years removed from Rian Johnson’s divisive The Last Jedi, director J.J. Abrams returns to the franchise to cap off this latest trilogy ...
DVD & Blu-Ray Reviews
Blu-Ray Review: ‘Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood’
One of the most celebrated films of the year finally comes to home video with the Blu-ray release of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon ...
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Movie Review: ‘Jumanji: The Next Level’
Franchise reboots are something of a risky proposition, with many beloved properties failing to connect with audiences in the same way as their ...
Movie Review: ‘Knives Out’
After cutting his teeth on 2006’s Brick, a brilliant throwback to Dashiell Hammett detective noir set in a suburban high school, writer-director Rian ...
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Movie Review: ‘The Irishman’
Over the past few weeks, acclaimed director Martin Scorsese should have been making the press rounds and discussing his monumental new film, The ...
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Movie Review: ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’
For an in-depth look at the life and legacy of Fred Rogers, the beloved host of long-running children’s show Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, you ...
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Movie Review: ‘Frozen II’
Walt Disney Animation Studios boasts something of a shaky record when it comes to sequels: we’re not terribly far removed from the mostly ...
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Movie Review: ‘Ford v Ferrari’
After shaking up the superhero status quo with 2017’s violent and visceral neo-Western Logan, director James Mangold is back with something a bit ...
Movie Review: ‘The Report’
“It’s been very consuming,” says Daniel Jones (Adam Driver) in the opening moments of The Report. He’s just been asked about his work ...
TV Reviews
Disney+ Launch Day Reviews
As if the streaming wars weren’t combative enough, a new player is entering the fray this week as the Walt Disney Company throws ...
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Movie Review: ‘Doctor Sleep’
Film critics, connoisseurs and historians may disagree on many fronts, but one universally accepted truth is that Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror film The ...
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Movie Review: ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’
After multiple disappointing entries over the past couple of decades, you wouldn’t expect the latest installment of the Terminator franchise to warrant much ...
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Movie Review: ‘Dolemite is My Name’
It’s been two decades since Eddie Murphy headlined an R-rated comedy (the last was 1999’s Life, with Martin Lawrence), but lest there be ...
Movie Review: ‘The Lighthouse’
A frantic fog-enveloped fever dream about isolation, paranoia and madness, The Lighthouse is director Robert Eggers’ follow-up to his acclaimed feature debut, The ...
DVD & Blu-Ray Reviews
Blu-Ray Review: ‘The Lion King’
With a worldwide gross of $1.6 billion, Disney’s remake of The Lion King –which eschewed hand-drawn animation in favor of the same digital ...
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Movie Review: ‘Jojo Rabbit’
After a commercially and critically successful foray into big-time Hollywood filmmaking with Thor: Ragnarok, director Taika Waititi is back with Jojo Rabbit, a ...
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Movie Review: ‘Zombieland: Double Tap’
Comedy sequels — particularly those arriving more than a decade after the original film — can be something of a risky proposition, often ...
