Criminal (2016)
It’s perhaps fitting that the generically titled Criminal‘s plot centers around a man who is, literally, conflicted about who he is supposed to be when the film itself suffers from the same conflict. Directed by...
Category: 2010s
Hardcore Henry (2015)
At the beginning of the film, we find the Henry of the title having been all but entirely killed from a brutal attack that sees his eyes, one of his arms, and one of...
Hello, My Name is Doris (2015)
Sally Field (The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Lincoln) reminds us why she’s earned two Oscars (other than because we really, really like her) with her sublime performance in Hello My Name is Doris, a comedy with surprising emotional...
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
Just as Disney’s brand of Marvel films has sought to build an interconnected cinematic universe of characters that will team up on occasion and cross over into each other’s films, now Warner Bros/DC Entertainment...
Allegiant (2016)
At this point in the Divergent series, the makers have decided that they have little chance of actually coming out of the shadow of the Hunger Games series to be thought of as anything more than a blatant...
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
In an era full of sequels that few were clamoring for, 10 Cloverfield Lane ends up being one of the rare good ones. Part of the reason why is that it feels like an entirely different...
The Brothers Grimsby (2016)
Sacha Baron Cohen (Les Miserables, The Dictator) continues his formula of crass, envelope-pushing comedies with The Brothers Grimsby (aka Grimsby outside of the US). The formula consists of trying to elicit laughs through sheer outrageousness, absurdity, and lots and...
Gods of Egypt (2016)
Gods of Egypt is what I would deem a ‘rancid undies’ kind of movie, a film so overblown in its ability to deliver nonsensical absurdity that only those with a curious penchant for the distinct...
The Witch (2015)
Set in New England in the early 1630s, six decades before the infamous Salem Witch trials, we find a family of devout Puritans vacating the tight-knit community they could not see eye to eye...
How to Be Single (2016)
Dakota Johnson (Black Mass, Fifty Shades of Grey) gets the lead role as Alice, who decides that she and her long-term college boyfriend Josh (Braun, Poltergeist) should break up for a while in order to experience what...