“The fall didn’t kill him. It was the abrupt stop.” Ben Affleck returns as Christian Wolff, the titular, autistic, Spec-Ops-qualified accountant in The Accountant 2. The Accountant 2 is an…
“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.…
“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…
“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…
"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…
“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…
“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…
“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…
“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…
“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…
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