Trench 11: Tension-packed WWI "zombie" film adds a few more horrors to the horrors of war
Searching: Ace Thriller Asks Timely Questions about Digital-Age Identity, Privacy
Cardinals: Better late than never for one of Sheila McCarthy's best performances
1945: Guilt, grievance and secrets boil over in a Hungarian village with a dark wartime past
Support the Girls: Sharp Comedy like Office Space in Pink Halter Tops
Papillon: Escape and escape again, unnecessary reboot brings nothing new to '73 classic
ReviewJim SlotekPapillon, Henri Charriere, French Guiana, Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Michael Noer, Charlie Hunnam, Rami Malek, Prison escape movies, '70s movies, Reboots of classic films
Little Italy: Dreadful, Awful Really Bad Rom-Com Benefits None (Except Maybe Pusateri’s)
The Happytime Murders: When bad puppet sex is worse than no puppet sex at all
ReviewJim SlotekR-rated puppetry, The Jim Henson Company, Henson Alternative, Brian Henson, Melissa McCarthy, Improv comedy, Elizabeth Banks, Todd Berger, Patrick Bristow, Puppet sex
Nico, 1988: Portrait of Warhol Muse’s Final Days Suitably, Germanically Grim
A boy and his best paleo-pal: Alpha is that 'something different' you've been asking for
ReviewJim SlotekAlpha, Albert Hughes, The Hughes Brothers, Domestication of dogs, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Salutrean hypothesis, Daniele Sebastian Wiedenhaupt, The Lion King, The Ice Age, Cro Magnon man
Mile 22: Where Bare-Knuckled Action Meets Profound Literary Quotations?
Never Saw It Coming: Comedy Noir Shoots High, Lands Kinda Sorta Nowhere
Skate Kitchen: An actual crew of young women boarders becomes less real as fiction
ReviewJim SlotekSkate Kitchen, Skateboarding, Female skateboarders, Youth Culture, Crystal Moselle, Jaden Smith, Dede Lovelace, Nina Moran, Docudrama, Documentaries, The Wolfpack
The Last Suit: One stellar performance in a tale of chasing ancient Holocaust memories halfway around the world
Crazy Rich Asians: Engaging(ish) Story, Strong Cast Buried by Garish Materialism
Its empowerment story aside, characters in Puzzle are hard to figure out
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Spike Lee's reality-based BlacKkKlansman: campy, preachy and entertaining
ReviewJim SlotekSpike Lee, Ku Klux Klan, Cannes Grand Prix, John David Washington, Ron Stallworth, David Duke, Stokely Carmichael, Angela Davis, Adam Driver, Paul Walter Hauser, The Black Klansman, Richard Gilden
The Meg: A toothless 'Jurassic Jaws' not even bad enough to be good
ReviewJim SlotekMonster movies, Shark movies, Megalodon, Jaws, Jason Statham, Rainn Wilson, Jon Turteltaub, National Treasure, Cliff Curtis, Chinese produced Hollywood movies, Masi Oka
Cielo: The desert sky as backdrop makes for a profound contemplative experience
ReviewJim SlotekDocumentary, The night sky, Chile, Atacama Desert, Light pollution, Planet hunting, Stars, Galaxies, Star-gazing, Alison McAlpine
Dog Days: Adorable pooch performances overshadowed by 'meh' human rom-com
ReviewJim SlotekVanessa Hudgens, Ken Marino, Eva Longoria, Nina Dobrev, Adam Pally, Tone Bell, Garry Marshall, Romantic comedy, Anthologies, Family films
