Movie Reviews

  Sometime in the 2010s, a photograph of a large, carpeted room with fluorescent lights and pale-yellow dividing walls circulated on various message boards. While seemingly a picture of nothing, in 2019, one 4chan user posted the image in a thread for “disquieting images that just feel ‘off,” on one of the paranormal-themed message boards. This sent other 4chan users into a tizzy, as they came up with their own origins and stories about this…

Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters is the most original and audacious movie of 2026. A cinematic shot of energy, color, and creativity with big ideas and an even bigger vision. It’s as unique, entertaining, thought-provoking, and fun as movies get. Keke Palmer stars as Corvette, an aspiring fashion designer, down on her luck. She lives in an abandoned fried chicken restaurant and makes her money stealing clothes and selling them for a lower price. Her…

  There is one thing you need to know and one thing you need to remember before going into Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu. What you need to know is that you do not need to have watched The Mandalorian Disney+ show to understand what is going on. If you have watched the show, you might have more of a connection with the space-traveling duo and be more invested in their journey. But to…

  Carolina Caroline is a Southern-soaked Bonnie and Clyde road trip movie about love, passion, crime, and greed. Samara Weaving stars as the titular Caroline, a seemingly simple young woman living on the outskirts of Texas with her father (John Gries). While she’s working a shift at the local gas station, Oliver (Kyle Gallner) enters and pulls off a small change con on the cashier. Caroline notices and is intrigued by how Oliver pulled off…

  In 1971, John Michael Tebelak’s off-Broadway musical Godspell took New York by storm, becoming the buzziest play in the city. A year later, Godspell went on a National Tour, with shows popping up all over North America, including Toronto, a city whose theater scene was on the rise with talent and popularity. But what came out of the Toronto production of Godspell is the stuff of legend and subject of Nick Davis’s delightful documentary…

  Jessica Lipki (Judy Greer) is going through it. Her daughter is off to college, leaving Jessica with only her husband Ron (Sean Astin) in their suburban Wisconsin home. Ron and Jessica love each other, but there is a sense that they are more used to each other than passionate about one another. While they both have jobs, they aren’t doing great financially, as they couldn’t afford to travel with their daughter to help her…

    There is something refreshingly straightforward about Daniel Roher’s crime drama Tuner. The film follows Niki (Leo Woodall), a young man who was once a gifted pianist, only for him to be diagnosed with hyperacusis. This condition essentially makes him allergic to loud noises. He wears specialized earbuds all day and puts on larger ones when he’s around louder noises like sirens. Niki has perfect pitch and works as a piano tuner with Henry…

  I first saw Olivia Wilde’s The Invite at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, and I loved the film. It was one of my favorite movies at this year’s festival and exceeded the buzz built around it throughout the festival. But was it truly a great comedy? A comedy solidifies its greatness with repeated viewings, confirming whether the jokes still land when you know what they are, and whether the film remains entertaining even knowing…

  Antoine Fuqua’s Michael, a biopic about music icon Michael Jackson, is an “and then” movie. It is a movie made up entirely of scenes and sequences strung together solely to get us to the next scene or sequence, yet without any connective tissue. Its essential breakdown is: scene one happens, and then scene two happens, and then scene three happens, and so on. It is simply a series of things that happened in Michael…

  Tourette’s Syndrome has not had a great run in pop culture. Despite how serious a disorder, and the stress it puts on the people who have it and those closest to them, Tourette’s is usually played for attempted laughs in movies and TV. From Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo to Not Another Teen Movie to South Park, when a character has Tourette’s, they usually, and uncontrollably, yell obscenities at the most inopportune times. Some movies,…