THE DEPUTY is ostensibly a crime thriller, complete with dead bodies, missing evidence, corruption and an increasingly desperate man trying to determine whom he can trust, but works best when viewed as a character study wrapped inside the trappings of a genre film.
Enchanting, charming, funny, sweet, and filled with an infectious sense of joy…THE FISHERMAN makes that journey with an abundance of humor, humanity and visual beauty, but above all, it leaves you with joy.
ORION is a riveting, intelligent, meticulously crafted psychological sci-fi thriller constructed with more detail and less information that creates the visual, aural, and thematic language of the film.
Love makes fools of us all. And in director Claire Scanlon’s utterly charming THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS, that’s precisely where the fun begins.
For a trilogy built around perpetual motion, Jake Harris doesn’t need another heroic pose or explosive victory lap. Because to borrow a sentiment once carved into the headstone of another heroic world-saver: Jake Harris saved the world. A lot.
Every so often a film comes along that sounds utterly ridiculous on paper, shouldn’t work by any conventional calculation, and somehow wins you over precisely because it refuses to apologize for how strange it is. THE INCOMER is one of those films.
When Bressack finally releases the tightening spring of fear and tension, I HAVE PROOF becomes almost breathless.
Structured in three distinct sections, RESENTMENT continually shifts the dramatic balance among its central trio while remaining rooted almost entirely within Trish’s Brooklyn bar. Each chapter rearranges the emotional geometry, allowing alliances, suspicions and resentments to mutate as afternoon gives way to evening and ultimately last call.
Never underestimate a little girl and her stuffed bunny in a paranormal horror movie.
Ethan Hawke is beautifully cast as Samuel, giving us a man whose strength is expressed not through grand speeches or swagger but through stillness, observation and determination.
KNIGHTFALL is a satisfying, economical espionage thriller that understands the value of leaving a little unexplored territory on the map
GATOR FACE, a scrappy, unapologetically bloody creature-feature/slasher hybrid that mixes a murderous cult, Southern folklore, real alligators, practical gore and a reptilian masked killer into an increasingly wild romp through the Florida swamps.
