Henry Stewart

The film was almost canceled for being too partisan, so it’s ironic to discover that it’s practically apolitical.

Would that Jacob Estes had kept the particulars of his murder mystery as intricate as the sci-fi of his main characters’ communion.

The fourth film in the Insidious franchise, directed by Adam Robitel, is lazy and sometimes even loathsome.

Throughout, the film raises metaphysical issues of physical and psychological autonomy only to gloss over them.

Greg McLean and screenwriter Justin Monjo faithfully hit the key plot points of Yossi Ghinsberg's 1993 book Back from Tuichi but fail to sell the severity of the threats Yossi confronts.

The film successfully argues that it’s through sensory details that we access the deeper aspects of our lives.

As it unfolds, Whatever Works assumes an increasing note of poignancy, becoming a quasi-optimistic story about securing whatever little love you can in this fakakta world.

The filmmakers fail to realize that the darkest horror here doesn’t lie in the triumph of true evil, but in seeing how far a regular family will go to protect itself before doing the right and necessary thing, however hard or horrible it might be.

Like the teenagers at its center, Hot Summer Nights tries too hard to look cooler than it ever could be.

This is a film that employs imaginative twists to illuminate the racism that’s entrenched in American history and society.

It becomes the obnoxious equivalent of trying to have a serious conversation with people who are high out of their minds.

Director Jeff Wadlow's Truth or Dare is a startlingly mean-spirited but otherwise dimwitted horror film.

The filmmaker has a bad habit of dropping the psychological inquiries to dully go through the genre motions.

The film advances that old Hollywood trope: Blacks can't get justice unless whites are willing to get it for them.

Pierre Morel's first feature film set in the United States is brainless propaganda for the MAGA market.

There’s a lot of sexual violence in the film, but it scans as unimaginatively repulsive, as well as blatantly misogynistic.