After years as a reviewer, I thought I’d seen it all. Then Jump, Darling came along and made me a blubbering, blustering mess. This is a movie that packs a glittery, dazzling punch, and it’s unlike anything I’ve seen in recent memory. It will forever be marked as the venerable Cloris Leachman’s last film before…

This little video-game inspired gem follows a retired special forces officer who gets trapped in a time loop. He’s forced to replay the day he dies over and over, while he tries to find rhyme or reason as to why this is happening to him. Under the steady direction of stylish action helmer Joe Carnahan,…

With a terrifying killer and an intriguing premise, I was entirely ready for schlocky, B-movie horror with Dreamcatcher. Writer-director Jacob Johnston, a visual coordinator on Marvel hits, unfortunately fails to muster frights or coherence in this mess of a debut. It’s about two sisters with unresolved issues who attend a huge underground music festival with…

As Disney pushes toward inclusion, movies like Raya and the Last Dragon will become more commonplace. That is an absolutely wonderful thing. Perhaps the most enjoyable thing about Raya is it introduces children and adults alike to cultures, people and traditions that may not be their own. It’s set in Kumandra, where an ancient civilization…

Based on an absolutely heartbreaking true story, The Mauritanian follows the unlawful detention of Mohamedou Quid Salahi, who is believed to be a member of Al Queda. As those within the justice system and government blindly try to push for prosecution post-9/11, this film shows the brutal techniques of torture used at Guantánamo Bay, and…

When watching Pandemic – titled in bad taste – I was reminded that a good genre movie gives the audience exactly what they’re looking for. But a great genre film? It looks tropes and norms in the face and goes an entirely different direction. Unfortunately, though the blood and gore staples of this zombie thriller…

Let me start by saying I know nothing – and do not care to know much more – about the sport of soccer. I dabbled as a child, in a bid from my parents to get me into competitive sport. I was more often picking daisies at mid-field than I was running for the ball.…

From the revered initial story by Jim Shepard comes a film adaptation for The World To Come. It’s a film that managed to reel in the highest acting pedigree available, but none of the human emotion of its source material. It’s a film that plays out like a slow-burn romantic drama, with none of the…

I went into this animated sequel to the hit original Croods film knowing absolutely nothing, and it was one of the biggest shocks I saw out of 2020 fare. The Croods: A New Age is a delightful, wonderfully done kids movie that should even tickle the fancy of adults at home too. The prehistoric-age film…

When Rosamund Pike’s sterling, massively crooked businesswoman Marla Grayson hits the screen, it’s impossible not to meet her character with both hatred and begrudging admiration. The woman is a legal guardian for pay, and spends her time draining every penny from her elderly, sick clients in order to make a living. But her evil ways…