Mandy Review
Nicolas Cage’s latest is a low-budget story of a good-guy standing alone against the forces of an evil cult and it’s so poorly lit that you’ll be squinting.
Nicolas Cage’s latest is a low-budget story of a good-guy standing alone against the forces of an evil cult and it’s so poorly lit that you’ll be squinting.
Director Paul Feig mostly succeeds in fusing noir and comedy together in this sleek and wildly engaging hybrid.
This clunky update of an 80s staple offers nothing new and exciting, while bogging itself down in forced humor and chaotic action scenes.
The famed Lizzie Borden story re-told with a sympathetic Lizzie.
An exceptionally unusual boarding school is the setting for an exceptionally unusual tale about a teenage boy’s time there.
At turns eerie and oblique, this adaptation of UK novelist Sarah Waters’ gothic postwar tale employs the genre’s standard trappings to explore a family’s unraveling.
The bursting of the housing bubble of 2008 is the backdrop for a sometimes funny, sometimes dark view of a decaying Arizona neighborhood.
A woman waits for word of her husband during wartime. Thankfully, you are not under the same obligation.
This bland response to the brutality of “The Cove” is more brochure than documentary.
Based on the wildly successful novel, this lively and colorful romantic comedy is a refreshing palate cleanser at the end of a mediocre blockbuster season.
| ★★★★★ | Perfection |
| ★★★★☆ | Outstanding |
| ★★★☆★☆ | Excellent |
| ★★★☆☆ | Very good |
| ★★☆★☆☆ | Good |
| ★★☆☆☆ | OK |
| ★☆★☆☆☆ | Pretty Bad |
| ★☆☆☆☆ | Poor |
| ☆★☆☆☆☆ | Blech! |
| No Stars | Fail! |