The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Horror
Lights Out (2016)
Is it odd to suggest that a movie that only runs 81 minutes might need trimming? That thought occurred to me all through Lights Out...
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
10 Cloverfield Lane is alternately fascinating and frustrating at the same time. It is fascinating in the moment but frustrating in that it takes so...
The Boy (2016)
To make a creepy doll movie takes a lightness of touch. You have to employ atmosphere, pacing, good editing, a good script, plus a doll...
Crimson Peak (2015)
The man at the publishing house looks quite amused when he finishes reading Edith’s manuscript. She’s just written a most unromantic ghost story that she...
The Visit (2015)
It has been agonizing to watch M. Night Shyamalan over the past decade, a director who came bursting out the gate back in ’99 with...
The Gallows (2015)
There is a brief moment late into The Gallows that is so restrained and so steadily terrifying that I felt a great lurch in my stomach. ...
Insidious Chapter 3 (2015)
There are a lot of baffling things about Insidious Chapter 3, and it would be fair to say that they begin with the movie’s title....
