I made a huge mistake. I succumbed to peer pressure on social media and, in the process, became a victim of the dreaded Fear of Missing...

[ The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Kiyoshi Kurosawa is often described as a “J-horror” director, to...

Much like the legendary superhero around whom it revolves, the Menahem Golan-produced adaptation of Captain America  is a relic of a...

If you were to plot all self-starring music biopics on a spectrum, with A Hard Day’s Night  (shameless self-mythologizing) on one end and...

For my final screening of Japan Cuts 2025, I decided to go with the obligatory film about amateur filmmakers—a staple of the festival...

Promised Land  is an appropriate title for Masashi Iijima’s surprisingly mature directorial debut. It is, after all, a film about the...

The documentary has evolved in recent years; films like And Everything Is Going Fine , Tower , and (to a lesser degree) Witches of the...

[ The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning  opens with a lengthy montage...

[The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] The Final Destination franchise is horror at its most primal. Although...

[ The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] As far as the art of adaptation goes, Thunderbolts* manages to...

[ The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] On paper, a cinematic adaptation of Sony’s Until Dawn franchise...

The Little Girl if Hanoi  is a work of North Vietnamese propaganda. Which isn’t a judgment of the film’s quality, but rather a neutral...

[ The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] William Friedkin’s The French Connection  ends with the...

In 2013, Red Letter Media’s Rich Evans coined the term “non-medy” to describe humor with a negative value of entertainment. Imagine a...

[ The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Recently, I read The Devil Finds Work , a collection of essays by...

[ The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] A Working Man  offers the exact sort of experience you’d expect...

[ The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Orochi  is one of those miracles of film preservation: a...

[ The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] In the Lost Lands  is a movie produced to appeal to...

[ The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Mickey 17  is the most compellingly horrifying dystopian sci-fi...

[ The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] All Shall Be Well  is best classified as a horror film—though not in...