Movie Reviews

  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,…

I was able to watch all eight episodes of season 2 of Marvel’s Daredevil: Born Again, which is streaming on Disney+. This review will cover the entire season, looking at the overall story and character arcs while also highlighting some of my favorite moments. It will be completely SPOILER-FREE, but just a heads up, there weren’t any major character reveals or anything crazy that would have the internet in a tizzy. Since its days on…

  Project Hail Mary opens with Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) waking up alone on a spaceship following an induced coma. He has no memory of how he got on the ship or why he is in space. As he searches the ship, he finds that everyone else on the ship has died. As his memory returns, he uncovers that he is on a mission to find a way to stop a mysterious substance from killing…

  Growing up in the golden era of Pixar, a standard was set for what made a great Pixar movie. The movies had to feature unique characters and stunning animation. It balanced its tones perfectly, making fun movies and at times hilarious, while also being dramatic and at times intense. It had thematic and story elements that appealed to both kids and adults. A great Pixar movie wasn’t just a kid’s movie; it was a…

  Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is an epic sci-fi journey that expects its characters and the audience to hop on board to its absurdity after only the first few minutes. The film opens at Norm’s, a diner in present-day Los Angeles. It seems to be a busy, but normal evening at Norm’s, when a man claiming he is from the future (Sam Rockwell) busts through the front door, saying he needs volunteers to…

  The Midnight category is always one of my favorite categories at the Sundance Film Festival, as the category has turned out some historic films throughout the years, like The Blair Witch Project, Saw, Oldboy, and Hereditary, to name a few. But the 2026 lineup is one of the weakest I have seen in my sixteen years of attending the festival. The lineup was a mixed bag of films that had potential and fell short,…