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One of the most crushing dilemmas that anyone pursuing film criticism can run into is finding a film like A Wrinkle in Time – a film where the love behind the camera is felt, the artistry is clearly present, and the messages and intentions wrapped around the storytelling are as pure …

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The coming-of-age genre is one that we have continually returned to throughout the years. As the times change, so do the themes that these films choose to tackle. We once lived in an era where it seemed like we were destined to only get films about straight white males and …

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We’ve had a fairly solid lineup of coming-of-age films as of late, both in mainstream and independent cinema. But every once in a while, we get a film like Flower that is just so unique and comfortable in its own skin that makes it stand out from the rest. Zoey …

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Don’t Take Showers: The Movie Red Sparrow is directed by Francis Lawrence, written by Justin Haythe, and stars Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louise Parker, and Jeremy Irons. It tells the story of Ballerina Dominika Egorova, who is recruited to ‘Sparrow School,’ a Russian intelligence service where she is …

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Annihilation is the much-anticipated follow-up by Ex Machina director/writer Alex Garland. The film serves as an adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer’s story around a biologist named Lena (Natalie Portman) and her quest to find out what happened to her lost husband. There’s a mysterious entity sprouting from an eerie lighthouse that is engulfing large …

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