Mar
20
Deep Water
It took me quite awhile to figure out what this movie even was. It was just… weird. Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas appear to be divorced or at least separated by the way she comes onto other men… only … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Thriller
Mar
19
Master
Master is about the lives of a handful of black women on a traditionally all-white prestigious university. The ladies not only have to deal with subtle microaggressions but also some pretty big macro ones too. Oh, and there’s a witch … Continue reading
Mar
18
Windfall
Are we sure this Netflix film isn’t a comedy? The genre says thriller… but I don’t know. I mean, it’s a home invasion film… I guess we can call it The Desperate(ly incompetent) Hours… and this certain level of incompetence … Continue reading
Mar
15
Exploited
Well, when you rent a movie called Exploited and you get sleaze, at least you get what you pay for it. Unfortunately, it’s not good or fun or even particularly sexy sleaze (your mileage may vary). The flick is about … Continue reading
Mar
06
Fresh
Other than the genre, I went blind into this movie. And I was enjoying Daisy Edgar-Jones and Sebastian Stan’s flirtatious romance so much that I hoped a yeti would step out of an alley and attack. I didn’t want the … Continue reading
Mar
05
Weekend Away, The
The Weekend Away is about two women on vacation in a <ominousmusic>foreign country</ominousmusic> where one of them goes missing and the other has to find her. And she also finds all the crime. Like… ALL the crime. Everyone is a … Continue reading
Feb
26
No Exit
No Exit is a surprisingly taut (and sometimes viscous) little thriller that came out of nowhere (or, you know, Hulu) and surprised me. I was really all set to give it an even more surprisingly high score until the final … Continue reading
Feb
14
Blacklight
Blacklight is a lesser one of Neeson’s gray-in-the-temple Dad action flicks. It’s not as bad as his worse ones though… but only barely manages to bob around beneath the more almost-there mediocre ones. It certainly tries for more story, at … Continue reading
Feb
12
Kimi
Here we have Steven Soderbergh playing in a conventional genre that he sometimes like to dabble in. There’s nothing particularly unique about the story on a bullet point list level, but the energy and the acting is pretty great. It’s … Continue reading
Feb
10
Privilege, The
I hate to tell an ambitious movie to pick a lane… but, seriously, this movie needs to pick a lane. The movie starts with one set of disturbing behavior and ends with a whole new bunch of freaky weirdness. Is … Continue reading