Us (2019)

Us (2019)

[7] Writer/director Jordan Peele follows up his sensationally well-received Get Out with Us, the story of a vacationing family who are attacked by doppelgängers  -- four, strange characters who look just like them. What begins as a mysterious home invasion thriller becomes…
Captain Marvel (2019)

Captain Marvel (2019)

[6] It's another Marvel movie! And it's on the high-end of average, like most of their releases. This one is all about a new character, a pilot named Carol Danvers, who becomes the title hero. She doesn't know who she is or…
Dark Shadows (2012)

Dark Shadows (2012)

[5] Tim Burton's big-screen adaptation of Dan Curtis' cult TV show Dark Shadows wants to be a comedy about a vampire transplanted from centuries past into the 1970s. That movie - one that focused on the vampire's relationships with his surviving relatives,…
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)

[6] Writer/director Dean DeBlois wraps up the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy with a mostly satisfying finale. In this third film, young Viking Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) and his comrades discover a second, rare Night Fury dragon -- and it's a female.…
Out of the Furnace (2013)

Out of the Furnace (2013)

[7] In this revenge drama from writer/director Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Black Mass), Christian Bale seeks vigilante justice after Woody Harrelson murders his brother over gambling debt. Casey Affleck plays the brother, a young man suffering from post-traumatic stress after four tours…
Greta (2019)

Greta (2019)

[7] Isabelle Huppert (Elle) and Chloë Grace Moretz (Kick Ass) co-star in this satisfying horror-thriller about a naive young woman (Moretz) who returns a lost purse to a lonely widow (Huppert). The two strike up a friendship, but Huppert becomes too needy.…
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)

Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)

[6] Melissa McCarthy shifts gears with a dramatic turn in Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the true story of celebrity biographer Lee Israel, who after decades of success writing best-selling books about the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Estee Lauder, and Tallulah Bankhead,…
The Favourite (2018)

The Favourite (2018)

[7] Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, Killing of a Sacred Deer) brings his off-kilter humor to this dark period-piece comedy about a poor but clever scullery maid (Emma Stone) who ingratiates herself to England's ailing Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) with intentions of replacing…
The Devil’s Candy (2015)

The Devil’s Candy (2015)

[7] Ethan Embry stars as a husband and father who moves his family to a new home where a mentally ill man (Pruitt Taylor Vince) committed murder. Embry's character is a painter, and through supernatural means, develops a connection to the killer…
Vice (2018)

Vice (2018)

[8] Christian Bale once again transforms himself completely to become former vice-president Dick Cheney in Adam McKay's (The Big Short) new film, Vice. The film is a pastiche of Cheney's political career, driven in large part by his relationship with wife Lynne…