Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is every bit as awe-inspiring as you’d hope a cinematic adaptation of Homer’s timeless epic would be, a hype-affirming triumph of…

Filmmakers just can’t seem to get enough of making movies about the lifestyles of the super-rich. It’s an obvious topic given the dramatic class inequality…

There have been several powerful movies that deal with the dangers and psychological ramifications of conversion therapy -- But I’m a Cheerleader, Boy Erased, and…

The concept behind Olivia Wilde's The Invite is very simple: a struggling married couple invites their upstairs neighbors, a seemingly happier married couple, over for…

One of the most frustrating things about the never-ending glut of superhero movies in recent years is the movie studios’ reluctance to stray even a…

Michael Sarnoski’s The Death of Robin Hood was always going to struggle to pique the interest of the general moviegoing populace, mostly due to the…

Steven Spielberg has always been a humanist storyteller. Even his darkest movies are built around the idea that human beings are resilient enough to overcome…

If you’re really into martial arts action movies, you probably don’t need to read past this first paragraph: Kenji Tanigaki’s The Furious is a raucous,…

I can only imagine the pitch meetings for Pressure, in which director Anthony Maras likely had to start out by telling potential financiers that it…

Most of us have experienced that special sense of unease that comes with walking through a dark train station hallway or barely lit airport terminal.…

As a childhood and now very lapsed piano player, I always get a little thrill whenever there is any kind of pianist representation in the…

There have been countless revenge thrillers in the history of cinema, and for the most part, you usually know what you’re going to get before…

If you asked a fan of the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada what they would want and expect out of a sequel, you’d probably…

No matter what you think of David Lowery’s newest film, Mother Mary, most of your thoughts and feelings will likely be directed towards one of…

Most movies about troubled teenagers are told from the perspective of the actual troubled teenager, allowing the viewer to attempt to enter the headspace of…