All articles by David Kempler

A mother and daughter encounter evil while driving on a lonely road, at night, in the rain. I’m getting scared again just writing this.

Paul Schrader’s latest isn’t a career highlight, but it has some fun moments.

Science fiction can rock when it has an able helmsman steering a good vehicle.

Swedish entry for best foreign film is the best film I’ve seen so far in 2016.

Documentary re-telling of when the dictator of North Korea kidnapped the leading director and actress from South Korea. Good, but not enough tension.

Documentary tells us how lucky we are not to have been destroyed a hundred times over by accidents involving nuclear weapons. Not quite as depressing as it could be.

People doing illogical things presented as emotionally deep. Avoid it unless you think you are deeper than you are.

The combination of Michael Shannon, Rachel Weisz, and director Joshua Marston should have yielded something more complete.

Laika studios and director Travis Knight may have given us the best animated full-length film of the year.

Jeff Bridges shines yet again as a grizzled lawman on the tracks of two bank robbing brothers.