Reviews

[Fantasia Review] Shelley

Everything starts so innocently that you'd be hard-pressed to realize Ali Abbasi's Shelley is a horror film besides the score's dread-inducing soundscape rising...

[Review] Miss Sharon Jones!

A cursory spin of the works of Sharon Jones could leave one with the impression that these tracks were recorded in the golden era of soul in the late '60s and e...

[Review] Gleason

Gleason is a decently effective sob-extraction mechanism, a nexus where sports fans and documentary enthusiasts alike can join to vent some ragged emotion. The ...

[Review] Pete’s Dragon

Normally predicated on mining compelling source material that worked the first time around in the hopes of drumming up an entirely new set of eyes, Hollywood's ...

[Review] Jason Bourne

From its beginning, the Bourne series has been defined by a minimalist approach to narrative. Beneath the jargon about multi-tentacled, global terrorist conspi...

[Review] Nerve

Perhaps the ideal thriller in a Pokémon Go era where Facebook Live, Periscope, and augmented reality have proven to be game-changers, Nerve ups the stakes and t...

[Review] Train to Busan

Dozens of zombie films come out every year, and yet every one of them is being dictated by a rigid moral logic. Characters are placed into categories of heroes...

[Fantasia Review] Tank 432

Director Ben Wheatley is showing his eye for talent by putting his name behind a guy who's worked closely with him since 2011's Kill List. A filmmaker in his ow...

[Fantasia Review] Realive

It's been humanity's dream since the dawn of time to find the fountain of youth: immortality. To live forever is the ultimate success for humanity's optimistic ...