Dea Kulumbegashvili’s April is one of the toughest filmgoing experiences I have had in a long time. This is a raw, unflinching, and uncompromising look at what women are going through in present-day Georgia. Nina (Ia Sukhitashvili), an OB-GYN and one of the most respected doctors around, faces accusations after a newborn passes away shortly after birth. With her life under a microscope during the investigation, Nina continues to pursue her medical duties, including…

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is a blockbuster that needs to be seen on the biggest screen possible. It’s a steamy, bloody, gory vampire tale that features lavish sets, stunning costumes and cinematography, strong themes, and is led by one of the best movie stars working today. Set in Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1932, Sinners follows twin brothers Smoke and Stack (both portrayed marvelously by Michael B. Jordan) as they return to their hometown following a stint in…

  A Working Man is a movie whose only purpose is to let moviegoers watch Jason Statham beat the living hell out of dozens of bad people. It doesn’t care about the story, and the characters are forgettable and might as well not have actual names. They would have been better suited with names like Henchmen #1 or Bike Rider #2. The body count is almost uncountable, and the finale is a barrage of bullets,…

  The inciting incident of Alex Scharfman’s Death of a Unicorn is just that, the apparent death of a unicorn. En route to a weekend retreat at his boss’s cabin in the deepest part of the wilderness, Elliot (Paul Rudd) and his daughter Ridley (Jenna Ortego) accidentally hit a unicorn with their car and seemingly put it out of its misery. Instead of leaving it on the road where they hit it, they pack the…

  Director Bong Joon Ho follows up his 2019 Oscar-winning sensation Parasite with Mickey 17, an entertaining and layered sci-fi epic that finds the director at his lightest and most optimistic. Mickey 17 follows Mickey (Robert Pattinson), a meek man who got into some financial trouble on Earth when his “friend” Timo (Steven Yeun) convinced him to open a macaroon shop. Turns out Timo is a bad person and got him and Mickey mixed up…

  It feels like every year at Sundance I see a movie that would have been better off being a short film rather than a feature. A film that has an interesting concept and a great beginning only for it to run out of steam rather quickly, leaving us with what feels like an unfinished film. At the 2025 Sundance Film Festival that film was Sophie Brooks’s Oh, Hi, a romantic comedy that has a…