Top Posts & Pages
- Movie Review: "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse"
- Movie Review: What's the Deal with "Nefarious?"
- Movie Review: Karma comes for "The Machine," the shirtless funnyman who isn't
- Netflixable? The Soapy Story of a Danish Ed Sheeran's abitrary stardom -- "A Beautiful Life"
- Netflixable? "The Year I Started Masturbating"
- Netflixable? German teens cope with joking genitals -- "Hard Feelings"
- Netflixable? Rural Mexican kids come of age in the sentimental "Where the Tracks End"
- Documentary Review: More "Proof" of a UFO encounter that's nothing of the sort -- "Moment of Contact"
- So the reason "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" is getting mixed reviews is that it's "Woke?"
- Classic Film Review: Angela Bassett as Tina Turner, "What's Love Got to Do With It?" (1993)
Find a Movie Review
Like Movie Nation on Facebook
Daily Archives: November 15, 2016
Movie Review: “Magnus” proves that not all chess champs are madmen
The first question of any chess movie, as with any chess match, is “How will this surprise us?” “Magnus,” about “The Mozart of Chess,” Norwegian prodigy Magnus Carlsen, asks “Why bother?” If you haven’t heard of him, didn’t read the … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Movie Review: “Magnus” proves that not all chess champs are madmen
Movie Review: Miles Teller leaves it all in the ring in “Bleed for This”
A century of “fight pictures” means that there’s really nothing new, visually, that filmmakers can show us in the ring. So “Bleed for This” director Ben Younger concentrated, instead, on sound. He deafens us with the tinnitus of a knock-out, … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Movie Review: Miles Teller leaves it all in the ring in “Bleed for This”
Movie Review: Only Michael Shannon escapes the arch flourishes of Tom Ford in “Nocturnal Animals”
Style trumps story and performance in Tom Ford’s “Nocturnal Creatures,” an arch film noir wrapped in the plastic of art world aesthetics, and damn near smothered by them. The second film from the fashion designer and former creative director for … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Movie Review: Only Michael Shannon escapes the arch flourishes of Tom Ford in “Nocturnal Animals”