Director:Steven Soderbergh Starring:Channing Tatum, Selma Hayek Magic Mike’s Last Dance is a strange beast. As the third entry of an established franchise, you’d think it would rest on it’s laurels, satisfying long-time fans. It doesn’t. Perhaps it aims to spice up the formula in an attempt to challenge its base…

Minor spoilers for the first 20 minutes of the film. There’s a bit of Rapunzel in the opening scenes of BONES AND ALL. We open on a mobile home in the outskirts of a nameless Virginia town. The place is inhabited by an adult man and a young girl —…

There’s something you should know about me and the murder mystery genre. Every retelling of a murder-most-foul — in literature, film, or art — can be promptly inserted into the category of comfort food. It’s positively thrilling to watch stumbled-upon dead cadavers be converted into exciting puzzles, with fairly reasonable…

“Definitively better than the sum of its parts,” is the most salient and succinct way of describing BARBARIAN. There’s nothing on paper that can do A24’s latest proper justice, nor even begin to describe the exhilaration from those lucky to have experienced it in theaters. I struggle, even now, to…

Director: Michael Bay Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Eiza González Reyna Instead of reading, “A Michael Bay Film,” the moniker above AMBULANCE should read: “A Michael Bay declarative statement.” …

The endorphin rush kicks in within the first 20 minutes of WEST SIDE STORY. It was sometime after the prologue, around the point when Riff gathers his Jets for a bit of strategizing. They’re angry, forsaken. “Depraved on account of being deprived,” to borrow a classic line. And as they…

And the Spike Lee snub you should be lamenting. The specter of DA FIVE BLOODS loomed large over the past month. Not for great reasons, unfortunately — maybe I’m wrong. …

The woods, themselves! They’re alive! It feels as though some films are untouchable. A tad blemished, maybe. Scrappy and Irregular around the corners, perhaps, but foundational nonetheless. Why is is that? Is it because they’ve spoken to some pertinent contemporary issue or captured the imagination of a social movement? Managed…

A well-staged tale of growing old that hardly anyone will watch. Director: Florian Zeller Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Coleman Here are some basic facts about THE FATHER: It’s a french-British coproduction; it’s based on director Florian Zeller’s play, “Le Père,” from a script penned by Zeller, himself; It stars two…