At times energetic and interesting, but mostly messy and overreaching, Ben Affleck's Live by Night starts out as a refreshing departure for the newly-minted Cap...
Railroad Tigers is one of those films where, despite its few-versus-many premise, the antagonist often feels like the one with nine lives. That is to say, it is...
You’re likely unfamiliar with the Bre-X mining scandal of the 1990s. Gold is counting on that. Like A Beautiful Mind, it’s built itself wholly around a big twis...
I've been lucky to have never used painkillers whether as a result of high pain tolerance or simply not having experienced enough to deem it necessary. I know p...
It’s not often that Bryan Cranston and Megan Mullally are the comedic saviors of a movie, but that’s 2016 for you. Their years of practice improving sitcoms (Ma...
Jim Preston is a creep. There’s no getting around the fact that his actions are detrimental to one's perception of the character and the film as a whole. The ul...
The title announces the intent. In recent years, it’s become a trend in pop science and history literature to revisit well-known events from the perspective of ...
Filmmaker Peter Berg is not in the business of subtlety. He creates action films at a human scale, and Patriots Day is just that, trying to do too much in its 1...
How much would you like to see a well-written scene of dialogue between Colin Farrell and Anthony Hopkins? It's only a fraction of the feature film in question ...
Sing has almost everything required for a Hollywood animation: the big names (Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson, etc.)...
