Richard Whittaker

For a film that should be touching the rawest of nerves, the death of a child, Sheep in the Box is oddly restrained, making one wonder exactly what there is left for the Kotomes to heal.

rand New Day, with its mix of universe building, top-notch buddy comedy with Frank and Peter, and a richer vision of Spidey from Holland, is a chapter you may well come back to.

Sure, the “no dialogue” thing is a gimmick. And sure, it’s the most generic script you can imagine. But Motor City takes those bare bones and makes them beefy.

For all its ancient skylines and sun-battered roadside signs that haven’t seen a lick of paint since LBJ was in office, Due West is a film of modern West Texas.

At the core is a murder mystery on a film set that can only be described as Douglas Sirk’s Blood and Black Lace, a visually stunning but utterly vacuous mystery centered around heiress/actress Elle (Sophie Thatcher, MaXXXine, Heretic, Prospect).

Nolan’s Adriatic is a place of philosophy and introspection, but also the nexus of the trade routes of the world. His sense of grit and grandeur also makes him the perfect modern filmmaker to translate the Greek mindset on the supernatural as just another part of life.

There’s a fetid sliminess, a certain putrefaction that you can almost smell from the screen, and Vaniček understands how to evoke that stench.

“Nurse at a retirement community gets her kinky kicks when she becomes part of a resident’s scam” is an accurate précis of the story of Night Nurse. Yet it comes nowhere near capturing how weird, idiosyncratic, hilarious, and unrelentingly horny the debut feature from writer/director Georgia Bernstein manages to be.

There’s a case to suggest that this new Moana may be the best Disney live-action remake, in no small part because it’s so loyal to the beloved source material. Yet in being so it proves its own redundancy. Everything good about it, from the jokes to the visual design, was already done, almost exactly the same, by animators a decade ago.

Instead of [Early's] seeming intention to create something that’s both funny and yet very demure, very mindful, he’s churned out a barely-congealed dish that’s the thinnest of gruel.