[Rating: Minor Rock Fist Up] In Theaters Friday, October 30 An earnest love letter to a vibe and city that’s got more love to it than letter, The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (OLPNY) is an okay movie made good by way of a career-best performance. Writer/director Noah Segan deploys several characters throughout the […]
[Rating: Rock Fist Way Up] In Theaters Friday, October 23 It would be easy to write Wicker off as just a horny movie about a middle-aged woman turning to furniture for a good shag, but there’s a universe of stories in this remarkable 105-minute miracle of a movie, and each of them is worth exploring. […]
[Rating: Minor Rock Fist Down] In Theaters Friday, October 2 There’s a reveal at the end of the first act of Digger that won’t be discussed in this review, except to say that it fails to deepen the narrative in any meaningful way, and actually proves how shallow a movie it is. The story of […]
[Rating: Solid Rock Fist Up] In Theaters Friday, September 18 Relentlessly charming movies with rich, developed characters and genuine emotional clout are a rare thing, so it can be easy to overreact to them when one comes along. It’s almost cheating when that same film also deploys kids with cancer and a career-best performance from […]
[Rating: Rock Fist Way Down] In Theaters Friday, September 11 A narrative bird’s nest stocked with shallow characters, spotty acting, shitty politics, and schizophrenic editing, The Fix isn’t just bad: it’s depressing. Depressing not because there’s a good movie in here trying to get out (there isn’t), or decent performances obscured by shoddy filmmaking (not […]