I think if you surveyed anyone who saw the first John Wick film back in 2014, there wouldn’t have been a whole lot of people who thought this would become a franchise of four movies and a spin-off. The film, which grossed a modest but respectable $43 million at the box office and received solid critical reviews, became a word-of-mouth hit and an immediate cult sensation, reviving Keanu Reeves’ career and creating a franchise…

  Danny and Michael Philippou follow their 2023 surprise horror hit Talk to Me with Bring Her Back, a blood-curdling, twisted horror film that solidifies the Philippou brothers as some of the most horror directors working today. Following the death of their father, Andy (Billy Barratt) and Piper (Sora Wong) move in with Laura (Sally Hawkins), a seemingly nice and friendly woman who is also caring for Oliver (Jonah Wren Philips), a mute child who…

  The Mission: Impossible franchise is my favorite movie franchise still churning out movies. I don’t think there is a single bad movie in the franchise (yes, even Mission: Impossible 2 is good), and I could argue that since 2011’s Ghost Protocol, the franchise has produced some of the greatest action films ever made. So, needless to say, I was excited for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, the latest and potentially final entry of the…

  Friendship might be the hardest I have laughed in a movie this decade. Written and directed by Andrew DeYoung, Friendship is an absurdist comedy that finds two of our best comedic stars working at the height of their powers in perfect unison. It’s a shame it forgets to be a movie for the last act. Tim Robinson plays Craig, an unassuming suburban dad who works for a marketing company, wears nothing but Ocean View…

  A Little Prayer is a gem of a movie. A drama that lets you live with a family and understand the ins and outs of how they function, elements of their past, and all their personalities. It makes you feel like you are part of this family, or that you have been invited in and are staying in the guest room. A Little Prayer centers around Bill (David Strathairn) and his family. Bill owns…

  There is one great thing about Matthew Shear’s Fantasy Life, and that is Amanda Peet. Peet, who came to prominence in the early 2000s in such films as The Whole Nine Yards, Saving Silverman, and Identity but has not been in a theatrical film since 2015’s Sleeping With Other People, gives a spectacular performance as Dianne, an actress and mother who hires Sam (Shear) to be the family’s au pair as she prepares for…

  It Ends starts with four friends, Tyler (Mitchell Cole), James (Phinehas Yoon), Fisher (Noah Toth), and Day (Akira Jackson) are on a seemingly late-night cruise. Their GPS has them make a right turn down a dark road. After driving down the road for a bit, they turn around to go back to the main highway, only for them to continue driving on the same road. They soon realize they might be on a never-ending…

  Jay Duplass crafts one of the best Christmas movies in recent years with The Baltimorons, a sweet and uproarious Christmas journey through the heart of Baltimore. Cliff (Michael Strassner), a recently sober former improv comic, is on his way to his girlfriend’s (Olivia Luccardi) parents’ house on Christmas Eve when an accident at the front stoop forces him to take an emergency trip to the dentist. It being Christmas Eve, not many dentists’ offices…