Were someone to ask my opinion of “Gehenna: Where Death Lives” in civilian circumstances, I’d mumble “meh” and move on.
PRIMAL RAGE (2018)
This review may not be worth much now, but it should be handy to have when we need a memory jog to distinguish this flat flick from every similar Sasquatch-related thriller.
THE RANGER (2018)
There is a subtly inebriated haze flavoring the film with an intentionally weird wooziness, like the birth of a buzz following the first two beers.
BATMAN NINJA (2018)
The head-on collision of Eastern and Western pop culture composes a disorienting kaleidoscope of eclectic action and eccentric spectacle.
DOWNRANGE (2017)
“Downrange” takes a demented detour into a bonkers final third by going for broke with midnight movie moxie.
READY PLAYER ONE (2018)
“Ready Player One” is the entertainment equivalent of cotton candy: consumed more for the nostalgic flavor than for its actual taste or nutritional value.
#SCREAMERS (2016)
“#Screamers” suffers from a severe real estate problem. Namely, it has 81 minutes worth of space and only ten minutes of content with which to fill it.
VAMPIRE CLAY (2017 - Japanese)
By creatively incorporating a carefully calculated amount of weirdness, “Vampire Clay” hits a sweet spot of satisfaction between fun and freaky.
GHOST STORIES (2017)
“Ghost Stories” features a freshly novel concept for framing an anthology, where the bookends ingeniously motivate each piece of the movie.
GONJIAM: HAUNTED ASYLUM (2018 - Korean)
“Gonjiam” is a virtual ‘Greatest Hits,’ or ‘Worst of’ depending on perspective, featuring every cliché “found footage” has to offer.
WHAT KEEPS YOU ALIVE (2018)
Kept taut using a duo of dialed in performances and a nearly relentless rhythm, the movie satisfies with straight razor suspense.
WILDLING (2018)
To populate an “it’s like” equation for “Wildling,” one could describe it as “Room” meets “Raw,” except with werewolves instead of cannibals.
MARROWBONE (2017)
“Marrowbone” feels like a motion picture made for your mother’s book club to mull over with a glass of rosé and charcuterie spread.
THE DIRECTOR AND THE JEDI (2018)
The documentary is an entertainingly insightful, just broadly basic, look at the impressive effort that goes into envisioning an epic.
THE TITAN (2018)
It’s fitting that Sam Worthington, perhaps the most vanilla male lead to ever front a movie, headlines “The Titan,” which basically boils down to being a flavorless film.
THE FIELD GUIDE TO EVIL (2018)
While some of these experiments go up in a puff of smoke, cinematic sincerity shines through independent of each piece’s success or failure.
PYEWACKET (2017)
Mirroring the rashness of Leah’s misguided motivations, “Pyewacket” ultimately feels important while in motion, but much less thought through once level heads prevail.
UNFRIENDED: DARK WEB (2018)
“Unfriended: Dark Web” can be legitimately suspenseful when you work past how complicatedly ludicrous it becomes.
HEREDITARY (2018)
Like it, loathe it, or fall anywhere in between, you’re likely to find its macabre mood lingering whether or not you personally wish to pick up what it puts down.
A QUIET PLACE (2018)
“A Quiet Place’s” uncomplicated premise unshackles it to impress as a smartly crafted crowd-pleaser packed with terrifically terrifying thrills.
How someone who sees this in a theater or without a notepad can keep everyone and their relationships straight, I have no idea.