Author Nate Zoebl

Revenge is a grisly, gory, and wild genre movie that will appeal to fans of indie thrillers but also extend behind that loyal clientele.

Solo is hard to justify except as an increasingly tedious appeasement to the greater altar of fan service.

The appeal of Deadpool 2 is still its comedic voice and unpredictability.

It’s an epic, entertaining, and enjoyable movie, but Infinity War can also leave you hanging.

Rampage is exactly a big, dumb monster movie based upon a flimsy premise of an arcade smash-‘em-up, and it’s also just about everything you’d ask it to be.

With all that being said, A Quiet Place is an ingenious little thriller with near flawless execution.

Where the first Pacific Rim rode the wave carefully to find a middle ground between cheese and awe, this time the movie swerves far more into cheese.

Ready Player One is a loving homage to pop-culture without being suffocated by the cumulative artifacts of pop-culture.

Tomb Raider is a smaller, leaner, and enjoyable little action movie of modest ambitions.

If Amelie was going to fall in love with a sea creature, it might look something like The Shape of Water.

Black Panther is a winning movie when it features its sterling cast celebrating their virtues and solidarity and a still respectable enough action spectacle when called upon for big screen duty.

The Cloverfield Paradox is another Cloverfield movie where the Cloverfield elements feel like the least interesting part.

I didn’t want Mom and Dad to end.

Filmed throughout central and southern Ohio, After is the passion project of special effects wizard Ben Brown who wrote and directed it (and, yes, did the special effects).

The most surprising aspect of Bright is how ultimately, it’s still a formulaic buddy copy movie dressed up with some extra fantasy spectacle.

The Last Jedi is a better movie, structurally and even emotionally than Force Awakens, but it’s flawed and definitely less fun and is driving so many fans to the dark side.

"The short version of this review is, simply, go see Justice League." VS "Aggressively bland, lazy, and unmemorable, I was genuinely left questioning whether Justice League was somehow worse because it wasn’t worse."

Thor: Ragnarok is easily the best Thor movie and one of the funniest to date for the MCU.

Suburbicon is a fatally flawed, overbearing dark comedy that has things on its mind and no clear idea about how best to articulate them.

Days after viewing writer/director Ana Lily Amirpour’s The Bad Batch, I’m still contemplating what I just saw.