Movie Reviews
Bugonia isn’t a typical hostage situation by any stretch of the imagination; director Yorgos Lanthimos and screenwriter Will Tracy play with our biases and perspectives, cheekily throwing our expectations and what we think of as common knowledge out the window.
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Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill have cooked up some gruesome and effective frights for us in Black Phone 2.
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While the first was more chill with its action and the second wove action and drama together, Tron: Ares is a full-on, gargantuan blast of thrilling action and flawless computer animation.
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Two standout stories in V/H/S/Halloween are enough to balance out their ho-hum companion pieces, where the twists and action feel like the filmmakers were trying too hard to create something shocking or impressive.
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Good Boy works wonders on its bi-level approach to its horror, metaphorically reframing illness as a fiendish monster and literally reframing how we experience said monster by putting us at a dog’s-eye view.
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Scarlett Johansson finds the brilliance of humanity in all of her characters—even in the ancillary folks offering a few lines or two—and layers it deeply within Eleanor the Great.
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One Battle After Another is in an exclusive sphere where the word “classic” would not be amiss; this is certainly one of 2025’s best movies, if not one of Paul Thomas Anderson’s best.
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Justin Tipping’s Him is, at its very core, a film about how childhood dreams turn into adult nightmares… or not.
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This is a totally different animal from the 1984 original, but still full of the heart that endeared this bunch of idiots to us in the first place.
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The Long Walk is a strange and alarming reflection of us and what we hold dear, unafraid to go where it must to retain its humanity in the face of inhumanity.
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