A MAN OF INTEGRITY dir. Mohammad Rasoulof, starring Reza Akhlaghirad, Soudabeh Bayzai, and Nasim Adabi Reza, having distanced himself from the urban quagmire, leads a simple life along with his wife and young son, somewhere in a remote village in Northern Iran. He spends his days working...
SPIDERHEAD dir. Joseph Kosinski, starring Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller, and Jurnee Smollett Two convicts living in a near-future society grapple with their pasts while trapped in a facility that allows prisoners to reduce their sentence time by volunteering for experiments using emotion-altering drugs, which are run by...
GUIDANCE dir. Neysan Sobhani, starring Sun Jia, Harry Song, and Francesco Chen In the not-too-distant future, humanity slowly rebuilds itself a decade after The Great War. Believing that the ability to lie is the root cause of the devastating conflict, a techentrepreneur creates a pill containing a...
JURASSIC WORLD: DOMINION dir. Colin Trevarrow, starring Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Neil, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum BLUF: If you like dinosaurs, this is an ok movie. If you like coherent plots, engaging characters, good editing, consistent sound editing, 2D projection, or contextually satisfying fan...
LIGHTYEAR dir. Angus MacLane, starring Chris Evans, Keke Palmer, Peter Sohn, Taika Waititi, et al A sci-fi adventure and the definitive origin story of Toy Story hero Buzz Lightyear, Lightyear follows the Space Ranger after he's marooned on a hostile planet 4.2 million light-years from Earth alongside...
THE RIGHTEOUS dir. Mark O'Brien, starring Henry Czerny, Mark O'Brien, and Mimi Kuzyk "Be careful what you wish for. Be certain what you pray for." The Righteous, the freshman debut of Mark O'Brien, tells the story of Frederic (Czerny), a grieving man struggling with his faith, who helps...
THAR dir. Raj Singh Chaudhary, starring Anil Kapoor, Harshvardhan Kapoor, and Fatima Sana Shaikh Thar, a Hindi-language neo-Western film, follows Siddarth, a strange man who comes to a small village at the edge of wilderness for exploration work while having a hidden agenda. While the town has...
TOP GUN: MAVERICK dir. Joseph Kosinski, starring Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, et al For those that aren't fans of comic book movies, Top Gun: Maverick has arrived to genuinely kick off your summer blockbuster season. A sequel to 1986's Top Gun, Maverick heralds the return of...
MEN dir. Alex Garland, starring Jessie Buckley, Rory Kinnear, Paapa Essiedu, and Gayle Rankin Men, the latest film from visionary writer/director Alex Garland, follows Harper, a widow taking a vacation in the English countryside after the death of her husband. While secluded in her massive countryside rental,...
MEMORY dir. Martin Campbell, starring Liam Neeson, Guy Pearce, Taj Atwal, and Monica Bellucci It's long past time for Liam Neeson to hang it up. Memory, the latest action thriller in the actor's waning resume, stars Neeson as Alex Lewis, professional hitman who's battling the onset of Alzheimer's....
