Mike Tyrkus

Few feature-film debuts have proven to be as impressive and promising of a great talent as has 'Nine Days' by filmmaker Edson Oda.

Although the new version vastly improves upon the initial incarnation, there is still an underlying penchant to make everything as dark and violent as it could possibly be.

In the vein of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films, comes a much feebler and unsuccessful attempt to spin another park attraction into celluloid gold.

Stillwater is one of those films that feels like it hasn’t got anything substantial to say, but there is something at work beneath the surface that lingers well after the last reel has run.

M. Night Shyamalan’s latest hybrid of drama, horror, and suspense is a turgid tangle of a story that offers very little of anything worthwhile in the various genres it contends to belong to.

“Snake Eyes” plays like an early-seventies James Bond knock-off that desperately wants to be something more tangible and important than it ultimately is.

Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain, proves to be a captivating portrait of a simultaneously complicated and fascinating man.

A hollow center blocks attempts to offer anything more than a slightly entertaining diversion, rendering it little more than a second chapter that perhaps was never really needed in the first place.

“Black Widow” is a fine entry to the Marvel canon and proves that super heroines can hold their own every bit as well as their male counterparts.

F9: The Fast Saga proves that the series would benefit from treating its audience kinder by giving them something interesting rather than this absurdity.

The exquisite, Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It, deftly explores the appeal and charisma of an actor whose career spans seven decades and never ceases to amaze and entertain.

While not ascending to the heights of Pixar’s greatest triumphs, the studios latest endeavor, the coming-of-age fish-out-of-water tale, Luca, is a solid, entertaining, and often rewarding family film.