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  Review: Marriage Story is a Tough but Compassionate Look at Good People at their Worst

  By Jeremy Ross on December 9, 2019

  Noah Baumbach has long been the great storyteller of unhappy families. The Squid and the Whale, which was before this the best film he ever...

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  Review: Queen & Slim is an Honorable Film with Charisma

  By Jeremy Ross on November 27, 2019

  Outlaws on the run have a long and storied history in Hollywood movies, and Queen and Slim draws heavily upon that. The parallels to Bonnie...

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  Review: Knives Out is a Witty Masterpiece Mystery Movie for the Ages

  By Jeremy Ross on November 26, 2019

  In a year that features The Irishman, Marriage Story and Pain and Glory, it would be wrong to say that Knives Out is the best...

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  Review: 21 Bridges is Morally Complex

  By Jeremy Ross on November 25, 2019

  Vigilante cop movies have a long history in Hollywood, but the current political climate doesn’t quite allow for rogue police officers to be heroes in...

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  Interview: Chadwick Boseman Discusses 21 Bridges

  By Jeremy Ross on November 21, 2019

  Chadwick Boseman plays an NYPD detective in 21 Bridges, and it is customary for actors who play cops to research the roles by doing ride...

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  Review: Frozen 2 is a Magical Sequel for any Disney Princess

  By Jeremy Ross on November 21, 2019

  Frozen was the type of phenomenon that Disney had not had in decades, probably since its run that began with The Little Mermaid and ended...

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  Review: Charlie’s Angels Re-imagined for a Modern Audience

  By Jeremy Ross on November 14, 2019

  The career path of Kristen Stewart has been an interesting one, given its unexpected twists and turns. Once a budding indie darling in films like...

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  Review: Ford V Ferrari is an Incredibly Formulaic Underdog Story

  By Jeremy Ross on November 14, 2019

  Ford vs. Ferrari is the apotheosis of the Dad movie. For anyone old enough to buy their father a movie ticket and not the other...

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  Interview: Jon Favreau Talks The Mandalorian

  By Jeremy Ross on November 11, 2019

  The streaming wars truly begin this week with the introduction of Disney+, which will rival Netflix and the recently-launched AppleTV, and the service launches with...

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  Review: Doctor Sleep Won’t Let You Sleep

  By Jeremy Ross on November 18, 2019

  Doctor Sleep is a decent, satisfying Stephen King horror movie, and also a sequel to both King’s novel The Shining and the 1980 Stanley Kubrick...

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  Review: Terminator: Dark Fate is a Welcome Return to the Franchise

  By Jeremy Ross on November 3, 2019

  Terminator 2: Judgment Day regularly makes the lists of sequels that surpass the original film, usually alongside The Godfather, Part II and Aliens. The three...

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  Review: Martin Scorsese Hits Another Home Run with The Irishman

  By Jeremy Ross on November 3, 2019

  The Irishman may not be the final gangster film that Martin Scorsese ever directs, but it feels like it very well could be. It is...

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  Review: Countdown is a Modern Horror Thriller

  By Jeremy Ross on October 24, 2019

  Countdown starts with a very reasonable assumption, that people never read the End User License Agreements that pop up every time a person downloads an...

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  Interview: Elizabeth Lail and Tom Segura talk Countdown

  By Jeremy Ross on October 24, 2019

  In the horror-thriller Countdown, Elizabeth Lail, who starred in the first season of the surprise Netflix sensation You, stars as Quinn, a young woman who...

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  Review: Frankie Sets a Definitive Statement on Mortality

  By Jeremy Ross on October 24, 2019

  It would be inaccurate to call Frankie a plotless movie, since it clearly and demonstrably traces a significant day in the life of its title...

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  Review: JoJo Rabbit is a Gleefully Demented Satire

  By Jeremy Ross on October 21, 2019

  Some people can get away with almost anything. Mel Brooks was — and probably still is — one of those people whose ability to get...

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  Review: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is an Enchanting Sequel

  By Jeremy Ross on October 19, 2019

  Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is an unnecessary movie, and that makes it one of the more interesting films that Disney has released in recent times....

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  Review: The Addams Family, Setting a New Standard in Family Values

  By Jeremy Ross on October 14, 2019

  For the grandparents of the kids who will see the animated version of The Addams Family, the definitive version of the creepy, kooky family is...

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  Review: Gemini Man is a Heart Pumping Thriller

  By Jeremy Ross on October 19, 2019

  Seven years ago, Ang Lee fulfilled the promise of 3-D technology in film with Life of Pi, which still remains the finest use of the...

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  Review: Joker is a Beautifully Dark Twisted Film

  By Jeremy Ross on October 4, 2019

  It is so easy to lament the effects of films on society that it is actually a surprise when a movie like Joker comes along...

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  Review: Pain and Glory is One of the Best Films of 2019

  By Jeremy Ross on October 7, 2019

  François Truffaut once said, “Today, I demand that a film express either the joy or agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested...

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  El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie to Release this October on Netflix

  By Jeremy Ross on October 7, 2019

  Breaking Bad ended six years ago, and its conclusion was widely heralded as one of the best television has ever offered, exceeded perhaps only by Six Feet...

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  Review: Downtown Abbey Never Loses the Appeal that Made it Great

  By Jeremy Ross on September 26, 2019

  The appeal of Downton Abbey has always been nostalgia, since the British series now given a big-screen treatment has always ached for a past that...

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  Review: Hustlers Works the Big Screen

  By Jeremy Ross on October 4, 2019

  To understand what makes Hustlers work, it helps to understand the difference between Jennifer Lopez and J. Lo. The former is an actress not without...

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  Review: Pennywise Returns inIT Chapter 2

  By Jeremy Ross on September 13, 2019

  A supernatural homicidal clown isn’t even necessary to make It: Chapter 2 into a terrifying film, because for anyone who left a small town to...

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  Review: Ready or Not is a Well-Crafted Horror Comedy

  By Jeremy Ross on August 27, 2019

  Ready or Not never holds out the promise of being a great movie, but in a similar way to something like Ma, it aims to...

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  Review: Where’d You Go, Bernadette Solidifies Why Cate Blanchett is a Star

  By Jeremy Ross on August 27, 2019

  Cate Blanchett can play almost any role, to an almost absurd degree. She famously had a two year period in which she played Bob Dylan,...

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