• Blow the Man Down

    Capsule Reviews: March 2020 Digital Releases

    The Banker Biopic of Bernard Garrett (Anthony Mackie) and Joe Morris (Samuel L. Jackson), two businessmen in the 1950s American South who strike it rich and buy a bank in Texas in order to help African American people get loans — which they can only accomplish by hiring Matt Steiner ...
  • The Rhythm Section

    Capsule Reviews: January 2020 Wide Releases

    Bad Boys for Life Since the first two installments of this franchise, both directed by Michael Bay, were so dreadful, I was not expecting anything from this — but to my great surprise, this one is actually good! Belgian directors Adil and Bilall, in their first Hollywood feature, stick to ...
  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier

    Catching up with the Marvel Cinematic Universe

    For someone with a film blog who writes reviews and likes to think of himself as an authority on the current state of things in cinema, I had a shamefully huge, Marvel-sized hole in my knowledge. I had seen the first Iron Man and the first Captain America back in ...
  • Jupiter Ascending

    Capsule Reviews: February 2015 Wide Releases

    The DUFF Mae Whitman gives a fantastic performance in this sweet, funny film. Many reviewers have called this the next Mean Girls or Easy A — but it's nowhere near as clever or original as those two entries in the teen comedy canon; every beat happens exactly as you'd expect ...