Movie Reviews

BlacKkKlansman

10 August 2018 Rubin Safaya

BLACKkKLANSMAN lulls you with its satire of American race relations, only to slap you awake at the end of the third act with a montage of grotesqueries from the past couple of years—lest we forget Ferguson and Charlottesville.

The Darkest Minds

3 August 2018 Todd Jorgenson

The Darkest Minds is mostly laying the groundwork while forgoing the payoff. Withholding some of the key developments from the source material — which has expanded into a six-book series thus far — is essentially a gamble that the series will continue.

Christopher Robin

3 August 2018 Todd Jorgenson

Less than a year after the period drama Goodbye Christopher Robin, we say hello again with Christopher Robin, a much different attempt at spinning the mythology of A.A. Milne’s beloved children’s characters in a new direction.

Mission: Impossible – Fallout

26 July 2018 Rubin Safaya

Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt.  He and his team, a menagerie now reduced to Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) and Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames), must exchange a rogue agent for stolen plutonium to prevent its use by a terrorist group known as The Apostles.