Hurry Up Tomorrow Tries to Get Deep – But Drowns
★ ½ Hurry Up Tomorrow is 1 hour and 40 minutes of “what the hell did I just watch?” It’s confusing and disjointed – so lost in its style-over-substance that any semblance of story is washed away by quick-cut, fast panning cinematography. It feels less like a cinematic experience and more like a videographer’s excruciating, long vacation video…
Final Destination: Bloodlines Finds Life in Death
★ ★ ★ ½ Final Destination: Bloodlines has no business being as good as it is. It’s the 6th in a series of films that started in 2000 and rarely rose past mediocrity. They were still moderately entertaining, campy horror where characters do their damnedest to defy Death. In these films, Death is an unseen force that starts each movie attempting to take out a large group of people…
Fight or Flight is a Try-Hard Mashup of Mayhem, Martial Arts & Hartnett Charm
★ ★ ★ Fight or Flight is a messy, stylish, surprisingly fun action flick that reminds us just how watchable Josh Hartnett can be when he’s given the right role. He plays Lucas Reyes, a former CIA operative now living in Bangkok, drinking away his regrets and dodging street gangs. He’s burned out…
Clown in a Cornfield Is the Killer-Clown Flick You Didn’t Know You Needed
★ ★ ★ Clown in a Cornfield is a more competent horror film than its goofy title suggests. The trailer hinted at a familiar but promising premise — and for the most part, the film delivers. While it doesn’t push many boundaries, it manages to rise above the clichés with blood-soaked flair…
Thunderbolts* Punches Above Its Weight – and Might Just Save the MCU
★ ★ ★ ★ Thunderbolts* is Marvel’s answer to the post-Endgame identity crisis — a team of super anti-heroes trying to fill the void left by the Avengers. If you’re familiar with the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), you know that The Avengers are the crème de la crème of superheroes…
The Surfer Trades Waves for Breakdown
★ ★ ★ ½ The Surfer stars Nicolas Cage as a successful businessman, who brings his young teen son—referred to only as The Kid (Finn Little) in the credits–to an idyllic beach town in Australia, where he was born. He’s hoping to buy his childhood home so The Kid can finish growing up on the same beach he did. Cage’s character is never named. Like the film…
The Accountant 2 is Fun but Doesn’t Balance the Books
★ ★ ★ Something holds The Accountant 2 back from greatness. Don’t get me wrong — it’s a fun action romp with a great brothers-in-arms vibe. The fight scenes are well choreographed and entertaining. I think I know what it is — I’ll get into it after a quick story breakdown. Ben Affleck stars…
Until Dawn Loops Into a Fun, Forgettable Horror Ride
★ ★ ★ Until Dawn is a movie based on a popular PlayStation video game. It’s a horror film, filled with monsters, violence, blood and mayhem in a town called Glore Valley. This town vanished decades ago after a mine collapse. Several people have tried to find the town and were never heard from again.
Sinners Takes Its Time—Then Bites Down Hard
★ ★ ★ ★ Sinners is a thought-provoking horror film that takes its time to set up the story, establish the characters and drive an emotional connection to both. The script moves like a freight train—slow at first, then barreling off the rails into bloody chaos. The backdrop of this film, set in 1932 Clarksdale, Miss., is a certain kind of music said to be so powerful…
In The Amateur, Rami Malek Trades Code for Combat in a Solid Spy Thriller
★ ★ ★ ½ The Amateur is a spy thriller starring Rami Malek as Charlie Heller, an expert CIA cryptographer. He’s happily married to Sarah (Rachel Brosnahan), who is heading to London for a conference. She begs Charlie to take some time off and join her. “Next time,” he tells her. That’s the last time he sees Sarah alive…
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