Movies

★★★★ Guillermo del Toro is a huge fan of monsters. Certainly, he is a great living ambassador for the hideous in all its perils and charms, with everything from prehistoric titans of Pacific Rim to the slew of beasties seen in Hellboy. The director, branching into new genre territory with his noir Nightmare Alley, explores...

★½ Species dysphoria is a unique condition in which the affected party believes they are of a species other than their own. Nathalie Biancheri, who writes and directs Wolf, sheds some light on the condition, but mainly just uses it to get her larger message across. What ensues is 99 minutes of pretentious metaphoric banter,...

★★★★ With only hours until game time, the team’s head coach (J.K. Simmons) and various power brokers (Lil Rel Howery, Tim Blake Nelson, Andrew Bachelor, Jeffrey Donovan, and David Koechner) need to save or destroy the current collegiate sports athletes by racing against the clock. Sure, Coach Lazor is having a terrible day. After years...

★★★★ Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler shine as Tony and Maria in Steven Spielberg’s remake of the 1961 classic West Side Story which is based off Arthur Laurents’s play of the same name. Tony Kushner adapts the screenplay, and Justin Peck lends his talents to stage the choreography. This gigantic production of a film runs...

★★½ Benedict Cumberbatch leads a cast of gifted actors in Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, a fairly engaging yet slightly anticlimactic film based on the book of the same name by Thomas Savage. The strong acting and interesting cinematography that includes beautiful landscapes bring balance to a rather barren plot that initially shows...

★★★★½ C’mon C’mon is Mike Mills’s latest feature that deals with the pressure and wonder that comes when looking forward to the future as well as dealing with familial relationships. The story may not have conventional structure of normal movies, but it is a movie to take in with feeling. The film is led by...

★★½ Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, based off the iconic video game series, Resident Evil, is a fun romp through the titular town, albeit a frustrating one. Director Johannes Roberts greatly demonstrates his understanding of Resident Evil lore and does his best to tell an origin story of sorts. The film acts as a...

★★½ In House of Gucci, director Ridley Scott (Alien) leaves us wishing for a better film by telling the overly dramatic, Italian-dripped tale of the Gucci family in a most Lifetime movie-style way. Using Sara Gay Forden’s book, The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed screenwriters Becky Johnston and...

★★★★ Kenneth Branaugh’s latest feature Belfast is a departure from his more recent novel based films (Murder on the Orient Express, Artemis Fowl). Belfast is a picture that looks longingly and delicately at the past during a time of turmoil and takes the viewer through these endearing and tumultuous moments through the eyes of a...