WOLFS Review: Clooney and Pitt Renew Their Onscreen Bromance in Breezy, Disposable Action-Comedy
Closer to the end of their feted, award-winning careers than the beginning, George Clooney and Brad Pitt, longtime, if not lifelong, friends, Oscar winners (Syriana and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood …, respectively), reunite once again for writer-director Jon...
NEVER LET GO Review: Halle Berry Lends Her Oscar-Winning Bonafides to Post-Apocalyptic Thriller
A founding member of the “New Extremity” movement that brought French horror filmmakers to the attention of international audiences in the early oughts, writer-director Alexandre Aja (Oxygen, The 9th Life of Louis Drax, Haute Tension) parlayed his fearless, uncompromising approach...
IN THE SUMMERS Review: A Man and His Daughters
It’s not being provocative — at least not intentionally — to suggest families, biological and otherwise, can seriously f*ck you up. Parents can fail their children. Children can fail their parents. Whether realistic or the opposite, expectations in either direction...
SUPER/MAN: THE CHRISTOPHER REEVE STORY Review: Deeply Moving Portrait of the Actor Behind the Superhero
For Gen X’ers and Millennials, Superman in live-action form started and ended with Christopher Reeve. Across four films and a decade (1978-1987), Reeve embodied Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster’s Depression-era, comic-book creation, a secular savior, a super-powered alien from a...
A DIFFERENT MAN Review: Unmoored Wish Fulfillment As Horror
Sebastian Stan, Adam Pearson, and Renate Reinsve star in director Aaron Schimberg's newest film.
TRANSFORMERS ONE Review: Workers Rights, Class Struggle, Robot Revolution
Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyree Henry lead the voice cast for director Josh Cooley's animated prequel.
MY OLD ASS Review: Coming of Age By Talking to Yourself
Aubrey Plaza and Maisy Stella star in Megan Park's rueful comedy.
REBEL RIDGE Review: Timely, Topical Suspense-Thriller
Directed by Jeremy Saulnier and now streaming on Netflix, the film stars Aaron Pierre, Don Johnson, and AnnaSophia Robb.
BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE Review: Back From the Dead, Demented and Delightful
Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder and Jenna Ortega star in Time Burton's worthy, worthwhile sequel.
AFRAID Review: Middling AI Horror Muddles Through Uninspired Third Act
First came HAL-9000 (2001: A Space Odyssey). Then came Colossus (The Forbin Project), followed by Proteus IV (Demon Seed), and SkyNet (The Terminator series). And that's just barely scratching the science-fiction surface. Individually and collectively, each film reflected the technophobic...
THE CROW Review: Don't Call It a Reboot, Call It a Reimagining
After spending the better part of two decades parked in development purgatory, the long-mooted remake, reboot, and/or reimagining of James O’Barr’s comic-book series/comic strip, The Crow, makes a belated, somewhat anticipated appearance in the nation’s multiplexes just as the summer...
ALIEN: ROMULUS Review: Fede Alvarez's Worthy Addition to the Series Almost Undone By Egregious Fan Service
Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn, and Aileen Wu star in the sci-fi thriller, directed by Fede Alvarez.
GOOD ONE Review: Teen Daughter Negotiates Uneasy Truce Between Father, Friend, and Adulthood
Lily Collias, James LeGros, and Danny McCarthy star in director India Donaldson's piercing drama.
TRAP Review: M. Night Shyamalan's Serial Killer Thriller Gleefully Embraces Genre Absurdities
Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan (Knocking at the Cabin, Old, Glass) and narrative logic have rarely been on speaking terms. Shyamalan has been downright antagonistic toward anything resembling narrative logic. He's a filmmaker primarily obsessed with the sensorial effects shot composition,...
DIDI Review: Coming-of-Age Tale Moves, Resonates, Illuminates
Written and directed by Sean Wang, the film stars Izaac Wang, Joan Chen, Shirley Chen, and Chang Li Hua.
TWISTERS Review: Lee Isaac Chung Channels His Inner Spielberg
Directed by Lee Isaac Chung, the new version stars Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, and Anthony Ramos.
SING SING Review: Colman Domingo Leads Dynamite Cast in Stirring Prison Drama
Located just 30 miles from New York City on the Hudson River, the Sing Sing Correctional Facility, a 200-year-old maximum security prison, incarcerates what the criminal (in)justice system considers the worst of the worst, repeat, violent offenders serving decades-long sentences....
Chattanooga 2024 Review: SOMNIUM, Where Ambition, Exploitation, and Desperation Meet
Chloë Levine stars in writer-director Racheal Cain's intriguing feature debut.
ScreenAnarchy's Top 10 Films Of The First Half Of 2024
The last six months of 2024 contain two more days than the first six do (courtesy of February, even in a leap year as this one...), so we could stretch it a day, but now there's no avoiding it any...
Chattanooga 2024 Review: BLIND COP 2 Parodies '80s Action Flicks to Diminishing Returns
During VHS’s all-too-brief Golden Age (roughly the ‘80s through the ‘90s), you could step into any neighborhood video store, peruse the stacks of new releases, and leave an hour later with any number of low-budget, straight-to-video action titles of varying...
