Category: Movie Reviews

There’s an air of mystery to the film that Egoyan never quite resolves.

“Another Simple Favor” ends up largely the same as the first in terms of what works and what falters.

Rungano Nyoni’s “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” is a surreal and emotional journey through one family’s pent-up trauma.

While “The Empire” has a sense of fun and curiosity, it’s not exactly pleasurable.

The threadbare quality of Constantin Werner’s screenplay cannot be smoothed over with gobs of CGI effects (impressive as some of these sequences look) and the starpower of Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista. 

The film’s crawl eventually wears on weary knees.

The parts of “There’s Still Tomorrow” that work suggest a film that could’ve been truly special.

The overall look of the film is lackluster, the characters are thinly imagined, and the dialogue is oddly obscure in a movie intended for children.

Your mileage with her film will likely depend on how much you vibe with the tropes of either genre, and also how much of your brain you want to check at the door.  

“Queen of the Ring” might not be a story we know, but we can relate.