‘John Wick 3: Parabellum’ has a blast playing in its sandbox
Movie review: The Wick-versus-the-world showdown is set in this thrilling third chapter.
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‘John Wick 3: Parabellum’ has a blast playing in its sandbox
‘Homicide’ (1991) is smart, depressing, violent
Mamet Monday (Movie review): This film is a smart but depressing meditation on racism, self-worth and the cycle of violence.
Raimi’s ‘Spider-Man’ (2002) nails casting and tone
Superhero Saturday (Movie review): “Spider-Man” nails the casting and tone for Sam Raimi’s web-crawler origin story.
‘Karate Kid’ (1984) a flawed classic for young viewers
Throwback Thursday (Movie review): This is a sloppy, incomplete film, but also a timeless classic for young viewers.
‘The Verdict’ (1982) a masterwork of the courtroom drama form
Mamet Monday (Movie review): This Mamet-Lumet collaboration is a masterful courtroom drama and redemption story.
‘Us’ – Jordan Peele’s followup to ‘Get Out’ – is chilling, weird and fresh (Movie review)
Writer-director Jordan Peele’s latest horror offering, “Us” – which hits digital June 4 and disc June 18 — opens on a seemingly endless wall of caged rabbits, a promise of future symbolism. The slow and […]
‘Daredevil’ (2003) looks particularly mediocre
Superhero Saturday (Movie review): In the wake of the Netflix series, this Ben Affleck-starrer looks particularly mediocre.
‘Fighting with My Family’ is a fairly lightweight biopic, but Florence Pugh is a champion in the main role (Movie review)
“Fighting with My Family” doesn’t redefine the sports biopic genre, which in a way is too bad because professional wrestling is such an unusual thing, sitting on the border between athletics and entertainment. It might […]
Aronofsky’s ‘Mother!’ (2017) is bizarre, off-putting
Movie review: This piece of psych-horror is bizarre and disturbing, but not in a good way.
‘Winslow Boy’ (1999) grippingly chronicles small, crucial legal case
Mamet Monday (Movie review): This adaptation is an engrossing, character-driven document of a small but crucial legal case.