Mike Tyrkus

While The United States vs. Billie Holiday is a heartfelt ode to a singular talent, it comes across as a bit too assured of its own merits and the dramatic heft of its subject to be bothered to simply tell the compelling story it has been gifted.

As far as feature-length directorial debuts go, one would be hard-pressed to identify one as impressive and awe-inspiring as Shaka King’s tour-de-force Judas and the Black Messiah.

An example of extremely talented actors shoehorned into a plodding piece that loses its power and credibility before dissolving into a procedural thriller.

The Human Factor, is a riveting and illuminating examination of American foreign policy in the Middle East since the mid-1980s and through to the end of Bill Clinton’s tenure as president.

There have been many films before Fatale that explore the consequence of extramarital affairs, but none have been as uninteresting or as tedious as this one.

News of the World is one of the best films of the year and deserves to be lauded as one of the more important Westerns ever made as well.

Emerald Fennell's 'Promising Young Woman' offers the viewer a bright beacon of light at the end of the long, dark cinematic tunnel of the past year or so.

The latest Pixar film, Soul, is worth the wait since its delay from last summer and may rank with the best offerings from the studio when all is said and done.

While not a step back, as its still better than most of the DCEU, Wonder Woman 1984 is somewhat disappointing given just how wonderful the first film was.

The horror/comedy Freaky is a stylistically pleasing hybrid of genres that allows a group of tremendously gifted actors the ability to shine their respective roles. However, it gets a little too lost early on trying to adhere to the horror genre than embrace what it ultimately proves to be far better at, the comedic aspect of the combination. Seventeen-year-old Millie Kessler (Kathryn Newton) is i...[Read More]

The new drama, The Climb, begins with, well, two cyclist friends climbing a winding, mountain road as they discuss their current state of affairs. It is a rather obvious metaphor for the twists and turns the relationship these two friends have will take throughout the entirety of the film. The Climb was written and directed by Michael Angelo Covino, who also plays Mike, the better cyclist of the t...[Read More]

The latest film to bear the moniker “starring Kevin Costner” above its title is the new dramatic thriller Let Him Go. While the film defies a specific categorization in any single genre, it miraculously escapes the fate of trying to be too many things at one time and is simply a splendidly told tale featuring a plethora of remarkably talented actors. When we first meet the Blackledges, they are in...[Read More]