Dan Stevens

As do many other successful horror films, "Abigail" promises one narrative trope only to trip up the audience with a remarkably entertaining adventure yarn.

While horror movies that predate The Rental may have tended to focus on a central idea and then stick on that one solid concept throughout, this film offers twists and turns that do not necessarily all end up being good choices. Although there is a solid film hidden somewhere in this often-cluttered thriller that tries to be all things to everyone, it would probably have been better off had it sim...[Read More]

Will Ferrell hasn’t headlined a well-received comic film since The Other Guys (2010), depending on your taste in comedies—especially if you’re not including The Lego Movie (2014) for which he was the main antagonist but not really the star per se. One would think he personally had a lot riding on the success of his new film, Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, since he not only stars ...[Read More]

A Walk Among the Tombstones is a tidy, character-forward procedural offering up Liam Neeson in this year’s second “Liam Neeson movie” working in a more somber, less super-heroic mode than in Non-Stop or the Taken bonanza. A Walk Among the Tombstones finds haunted P.I. Matthew Scudder hunting a couple of sick slashers targeting 1990s New York women in a grim but engrossing dot-connector the likes o...[Read More]