Lazarus: Watanabe’s Neon Resurrection of Cyberpunk
Dan Kleiner “If you can’t feel any pain, there’s no difference from being dead.” Lazarus is sleek and stylish, cynical and cautionary. It is an ominous cyberpunk portrayal of a possible near-future.…
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No Pain, No Problem: Novocaine’s Bloody Path to Love
“Everyone is hiding something. We’re all looking for someone to show it to.” Novocaine is a bleak love story. It’s another viscous and visceral black comedy, an action movie that…
Mickey 17: A Darkly Hilarious Sci-Fi Satire on Power, Exploitation, and Identity
“Imagine there’s an unknown virus in the air and you’re inhaling it with every breath.” Mickey 17 is a pitch-black comedy. Based on Edward Ashton’s 2022 science fiction novel, Mickey…
Love Hurts: A Bloody, Baffling Misfire That Even the Goonies Can’t Save
"Hiding ain't living."Love Hurts is a misconceived action vehicle for Oscar-winning star, Ke Huy Quan. It is a patchwork monster of slapped-together genres given a glitter glaze and a neon…
Fangs, Families, and Fear: WOLF MAN Reinvents the Werewolf Myth with Emotional Bite
“Sometimes when you’re a dad, you’re so afraid of your kid getting scarred that you become the one that scars them.” Though it occasionally dips into comic book movie origin…
Sonic the Hedgehog III Review: A Manic, Family-Centered Sequel That Speeds Ahead
“The light shines even though the star is gone.” Sonic the Hedgehog III is a sparkly, stylized and sometimes silly sequel to 2022’s successful Sonic the Hedgehog II. Though the…
Kraven the Hunter: A Predator Without Prey?
“I believe there is an animal in each of us, Dimitri.” The quixotic, live-action Sony Spider-Verse sputters to a close with the underwhelming Kraven the Hunter, a remarkably clichéd, poorly…
September 5 Movie Review: A Date to Remember?
“This is happening now, if you can believe it.” September 5 is a tense, tightly-shot and intimate portrayal of the 1972 Black September incident where eight members of the Black…
Posies Short Film Review
“We have become too hateful, too unfeeling, and I’m afraid if we don’t fix this soon, we will all become monsters.” Posies is an acclaimed, atmospheric, tense and evocative 2022…
The Wild Robot Review
“They want me to come with them.”“Tell them you’re already home.” The Wild Robot is a very good movie. It tells the story of a robot seemingly delivered by providence,…