Reviews
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The Infiltrator Goes Deep Undercover but Comes Up Short
Bryan Cranston’s swagger helps save this clunky gangster movie (sort of). More of him in everything, please.Broad Green Pictures Life is just not the same without…
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Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates: Too Many Hashtags, Not Enough LOLs
If this is the comedy Hollywood thinks millennials want, we’re screwed. Mike and Dave Stangle are two hard-partying brothers whose frat boy antics always end up…
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Ghostbusters Review: New Laughs Inside An Old Formula
Ghostbusters Finds New Laughs Inside an Old Formula Paul Feig’s remake is hilarious, forward-looking, and delightfully in touch with its origins. Rebooting beloved classics is delicate business.…
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The Secret Life of Pets Does Toy Story All Wrong
Nothing in the rulebook says dog movies can’t be boring. FSR IllustrationAfter watching The Secret Life of Pets, I understood why the squishy yellow trash-can Minions…
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She Remembers, He Forgets: A Beautiful and Bittersweet Tale of Nostalgia and Regret
NYAFF 2016 Regret is often viewed as a weakness, a negative waste of emotion and time that should be spent moving forward. There’s a degree…
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The Tag-Along Is a Breath of Frighteningly Fresh Air for the Asian Horror Scene
NYAFF 2016 There was a brief period from the late ’90s through the early ’00s that saw horror cinema dominated by films from Japan (The…
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The Legend of Tarzan is the Best-Looking Bad Superhero Movie of the Year
Another classic character gets another disappointing reboot. Tarzan is a tricky character for the movies these days. Never mind that the classic pulp stories aren’t…
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The Purge: Election Year Makes America Bloody Again
The third chapter is the weakest link in the Purge series. Since its inception in 2013, writer/director James DeMonaco’s The Purge series has consistently grown in…
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The Laundryman Is a Hitman Thriller By Way of Robert Downey Jr.’s Heart and Souls
NYAFF 2016 It’s not easy being a hitman, or at least it’s not easy being this hitman. Greenfield (Joseph Chang) – not his name, except…