Alita: Battle Angel (2019) Nate Zoebl February 20, 2019 Movies, Reviews This visual decadence of Battle Angel is the greatest reason to see it, especially on the big screen if able.
Polar (2019) Nate Zoebl January 28, 2019 Movies, Reviews Polar is such a thoroughly unpleasant film experience I was wondering if Lars von Trier had somehow made a comic book movie.
Bird Box (2018) Nate Zoebl January 11, 2019 Movies, Reviews Bird Box isn’t a movie worth strong feelings, good or bad.
Aquaman (2018) Nate Zoebl December 24, 2018 Movies, Reviews Ultimately your view of Aquaman will come down to what you’re willing to forgive in the name of fun spectacle.
Advance Review: Mortal Engines (2018) Nate Zoebl December 13, 2018 Movies, Reviews Mortal Engines feels assembled from the many scattered pieces of other, better movies.
Advance Review – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) Nate Zoebl December 11, 2018 Movies, Reviews Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is the best-animated film of the year and one of the best films of the year, full stop.
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) Nate Zoebl December 4, 2018 Movies, Reviews, TV Netflix might just be the best pasture yet for brothers Joel and Ethan Coen.
Blue My Mind (2018) Nate Zoebl November 29, 2018 Movies, Reviews I cannot overstate how much I simply hate this movie’s title, Blue My Mind.
The Girl in the Spider’s Web (2018) Nate Zoebl November 13, 2018 Movies, Reviews The Girl in the Spider’s Web gets caught in its own formulaic web.
Suspiria (2018) – Take One Nate Zoebl November 6, 2018 Movies, Reviews I’m convinced there’s a potentially great movie in Suspiria but it’s going to require a lot of excavation to allow it to see the outside.
Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) Nate Zoebl October 19, 2018 Movies, Reviews It is no disservice when I say that Bad Times at the El Royale joins the ranks of the finest of Tarantino imitators.
Venom (2018) Nate Zoebl October 9, 2018 Movies, Reviews Venom is a mediocre superhero movie that doesn’t know what it wants to be.
The Predator (2018) Nate Zoebl September 22, 2018 Movies, Reviews Shane Black is going back home to revive the dormant franchise with The Predator, a big-budget sequel/reboot that aims for the stars and falls far, far too short.
Mandy (2018) Nate Zoebl September 17, 2018 Movies, Reviews Mandy is overwhelmingly a campy revenge thriller that celebrates the unique Cage-ness of Nicolas Cage’s more unhinged, bizarre performances.
Peppermint (2018) Nate Zoebl September 13, 2018 Movies, Reviews From a structural standpoint, you never get a great sense of where Peppermint is going after that 45-minute mark.
The Nun (2018) Nate Zoebl September 12, 2018 Movies, Reviews The Nun is the fifth film in the series, the second spin-off film, and probably the movie with the least amount of narrative substance given its starting material.
The Meg (2018) Nate Zoebl August 16, 2018 Movies, Reviews The Meg has enough awareness, payoffs, and fun to stay afloat and be a better B-movie.
BlackkKlansman / Sorry to Bother You (2018) Nate Zoebl August 10, 2018 Movies, Reviews BlackkKlansman and Sorry to Bother You are each unique and fun but with larger messages to say about the black experience and other fissures within our volatile society.
Early Bird Review – Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) Nate Zoebl July 26, 2018 Movies, Reviews Simply put, Mission Impossible: Fallout is the best straightforward action movie since Mad Max: Fury Road.
The First Purge (2018) Nate Zoebl July 10, 2018 Movies, Reviews This is the first Purge movie to exist in the era of President Donald J. Trump, and that has made the films more political and even more oddly relevant.