Movie Review: Baby Driver
When an Edgar Wright movie comes along, it’s imperative that you see it. So far, at least to me, none of his movies have been …
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Movie Review: It Comes At Night
It Comes At Night does not contain the same “it” as It Follows. It is more metaphorical in this case: that thing that you feel …
Movie Review: Wonder Woman
DC Comics, watching Marvel grow its superhero franchise into the Avengers, probably thought “We could do this in our sleep! We’ve got Batman and Superman!!” …
Movie Review: War Machine
Within War Machine is a great movie…somewhere. I could be wrong. Perhaps bureaucracy of war will never be as captivating or potent as a battle. …
Movie Review: Alien: Covenant
Alien: Covenant represents everything that is wrong with nostalgia based moviemaking. Let’s use a transcendent, genre subverting franchise to tell the SAME story but with …
Movie Review: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
The Guardians of the Galaxy injects the already pretty fun Marvel universe with a dose of wacky hijinks. In my review I called it Star …
Movie Review: Win It All
It’s easy to see why Joe Swanberg found his muse in Jake Johnson. Both share a Northside Chicago upbringing, an affinity to dive bar drinking, …
Movie Review: The Discovery
There are many great sins in movie making, but The Discovery commits the biggest one. Boasting a terrific premise with a stellar cast, the movie …
Movie Review: Free Fire
Free Fire bummed me out. A movie with a pretty sterling pedigree of director, writer, and actors with a classy, fun premise feels like a …
Movie Review: The Lost City of Z
Millennials might not know what Apocalypse Now is. But back in the day, that movie used the Vietnam War as an allegory for an American …