Category: Reviews
-
‘Secret Defense’ is a Spellbinding Revenge Drama
Jacques Rivette takes a revenge plot and, subversively, is most interested in the mundane everyday details that would in most other movies be incidental.
-
‘Outlaws’ is a Bad-Wig Crime Thriller
This Spanish drama has all the charge of a crime-doesn’t-pay TV movie.
-
‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ is a Stunning Achievement — and a Bit of a Bore
James Cameron’s long-delayed follow-up to 2009’s ‘Avatar’ doubles down on visual spectacle and inert drama.
-
Sally Field and Burt Reynolds Are Dynamite Together in ‘Smokey and the Bandit’
Jackie Gleason’s cigarette-voiced villain performance is a highlight, too.
-
‘Hanna’ Should Have Stayed a Pitch
Joe Wright’s pivot to action filmmaking has flashes of intrigue but is mostly a slog.
-
The Creeping Dread of ‘White Noise’ and ‘The Eternal Daughter’
Noah Baumbach tries his hand at adaptation, and Joanna Hogg expands her cinematic universe.
-
‘Times Square’ is a Confused Coming-of-Age Drama
This 1980 cult drama is all promise and no effective follow-through. Read the review.
-
Long Journeys and Bloody Appetites in ‘Glass Onion’ and ‘Bones and All’
‘Knives Out’ gets a sequel, and Luca Guadagnino tells a cannibal love story.
-
‘She Said’ is a By-the-Numbers, But Mostly Effective, Journalism Drama
Plus: ‘The Menu’ has no bite.
-
‘Crimes of the Heart’ is a Sometimes Fun Acting Showcase and That’s About It
It’s a pleasure to watch Jessica Lange, Diane Keaton, and Sissy Spacek simulate sisterhood, but everything else about ‘Crimes of the Heart’ is at best thin and at worst offensive.
-
American Horror Stories in ‘Armageddon Time’ and ‘The Good Nurse’
New movies from James Gray and Tobias Lindholm.
-
Guests from Hell in ‘Death Game’
Peter S. Traynor’s helter-skelter black comedy turns the home-invasion thriller on its head.
Peterson Reviews 