Film Review: Captain Phillips

Captain Phillips hits a number of thrilling highs, but Tom Hanks’ great performance can’t keep the film moving forward when the story gets repetitive.

Dissecting Gravity: Space Race For Your Life

It’s been years of waiting for some of us to lay eyes on Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity and the end result is an experience you often haven’t had in a theater before.

Film Review: Don Jon

Don Jon flips the gender roles in the romantic comedy as Joseph Gordon-Levitt writes, directs and acts his way to one of the best comedies of the year.

Dissecting Rush: Biopicing at 200 MPH

Ron Howard returns to form with Rush, a solid dueling biopic that captures the intensity of F1 Racing even if it isn’t coherent and gets a great performance out of Daniel Brühl.

Dissecting The Directorial Sophomore Slumps of 2013

2013 has been full of directors’ sophomore efforts, like any year, only none of these films are living up to their director’s previous works.

Film Review: Short Term 12

Short Term 12 reaches perfection for nearly 2/3 of its run time before giving over its natural storytelling to forced drama that just doesn’t work anywhere near as well as the rest of the film.

Film Review: Ain’t Them Bodies Saints

Ain’t Them Bodies Saints is an impressive debut from David Lowery and is just a smidgen shy of complete excellence.

Dissecting You’re Next: A Strong Reminder To Lock Your Doors

Lauren: It’s hard to beat The Strangers when it comes to terrifying home invasion films. Just ask The Purge from earlier this year, which lost itself in the bog of a message forced into what should have been a scary fun film of a family defending their own. What a disappointing fail. Good thing You’re […]

Dissecting The Spectacular Now: Coming of Age the Wrong Way

The Spectacular Now, from James Ponsoldt, is a grounded look at the coming of age story, but it comes apart when you realize it doesn’t have much depth or anything new to say in the genre.

Film Review: The World’s End

Edgar Wright’s latest, The World’s End, is fighting to not be his weakest film overall, yet it’s still great and one of the better films of the summer.