Top Posts & Pages
- Series Review: Not Your Grandpa's "Grand Tour"
- Movie Review: A Legend of the Steppes Gives the Mongols What For -- "Rise of the Conqueror"
- Movie Review: Love, Sex and Steroids in Affluent Italia -- "Love Me, Love Me"
- Movie Review: A Buddy Comedy (?) with Organ Donation and a Big Body Count -- "Runner"
- Movie Review: The Sad Aftershocks of "Obsession"
- Movie Review: An officer deals with blowback of an accident, "A Shot Through the Wall"
- Is Youtube Environmentalist "Dr. Edmund Hale" an AI Phony?
- Movie Review -- Aimless "Fly Old Bird: Escape to the Ark" is Road Trip Tedium Incarnate
- Classic Film Review: The Sweetest Stoner Comedy of them all -- "Saving Grace" (2000)
- Movie Review: Another student-teacher affair, this one "Before the Dawn"
Find a Movie Review
Like Movie Nation on Facebook
Daily Archives: January 31, 2025
Movie Review: It’s a wedding, and Reese, Celia, Meredith, Geraldine and Will say “You’re Cordially Invited,” Y’all
“Commitment” is a cornerstone of the marriage contract. And it’s damned important in a romantic comedy about marriages as well. Say this for the cast of writer-director Nicholas Stoller’s “You’re Cordially Invited.” These kids — and Will Ferrell and Reese … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Tagged comedy, movie-reviews, movies, reese-witherspoon, will-ferrell
Comments Off on Movie Review: It’s a wedding, and Reese, Celia, Meredith, Geraldine and Will say “You’re Cordially Invited,” Y’all
Netflixable? “The Sand Castle” is a child’s fantasy of war, loss and displacement
Today’s “Around the World with Netflix” film comes from Lebanon, a nation no stranger to strife and conflict like most of the Middle Eastern nation states surrounding her. Lebanon isn’t mentioned by name or treated directly as the subject of … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Netflixable? “The Sand Castle” is a child’s fantasy of war, loss and displacement
Movie Review: Meet your compliant and cuddly new AI robotic “Companion”
“Companion” is a horrific and caustically cautionary sci-fi thriller about how the digitized alternatives to dating might go wrong. Very wrong. Signing on an impressive cast, writer-director Drew Hancock takes a big, roundhouse swing at “coupling” in a distracted, instant … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Tagged horror, jack-quaid, movie-review, Reviews, sophie-thatcher
Comments Off on Movie Review: Meet your compliant and cuddly new AI robotic “Companion”
Movie Review: Combat at Its most Cliched — “Valiant One”
The bar was raised on combat films decades ago. Corny, tactically sloppy flag-wavers no longer cut the mustard. And thanks to the most documentary filmed in history — Iraq and Afghanistan — it’s not just the feature films that made … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Tagged dmz, film, movie-review, movies, north-korea, vancouver-filming
Comments Off on Movie Review: Combat at Its most Cliched — “Valiant One”
Movie Nation 