All posts tagged "crime thriller"
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Mark Glass | October 7, 2025THE VILLAGERS – Review
I’ve enjoyed a slew of Ma Dong-seok’s contributions to Korean action flicks. The rotund, open-faced actor usually plays...
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Jim Batts | August 14, 2025HIGHEST 2 LOWEST – Review
Even though the sweltering temps haven’t abated, it seems that the 2025 Summer movie season is nearing an...
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Mark Glass | August 1, 2025SHE RIDES SHOTGUN – Review
To set the stage correctly, despite the inferences the title SHE RIDES SHOTGUN suggests, this is a contemporary...
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Jim Batts | December 5, 2024THE ORDER (2024) – Review
During the pandemic lockdown and in the frigid months of more recent years, many home viewers became hooked...
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Jim Batts | October 31, 2024EMILIA PEREZ – Review
All through cinema’s history we’ve seen countless stories of characters who want to “start over” and “reinvent themselves”....
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Jim Batts | March 14, 2024LOVE LIES BLEEDING – Review
Ready for a cinematic “walk on the wild side”? Perhaps something in the film noir category, but not...
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Jim Batts | August 31, 2023THE GOOD MOTHER (2023) – Review
Well, here’s a more somber crime thriller to quiet things down in the multiplexes as the Summer movie...
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Mark Glass | August 1, 2023BAD CITY – Review
The subtitled Japanese crime flick, BAD CITY, delivers the goods on two essential counts – an atypically complex...
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Mark Glass | March 10, 2023THE RITUAL KILLER – Review
Any time Morgan Freeman is in the cast, a film is going to be worth considering. In the...
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Jim Batts | October 27, 2022THE GOOD NURSE – Review
So for Halloween weekend, what’s an excellent setting for some creepy cinema chills? Sure, big creaky dark mansions...
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Cate Marquis | March 18, 2022THE OUTFIT – Review
The stylish, entertaining, a bit bloody gangster thriller THE OUTFIT is tailor-made for it star, the gifted Mark...
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Jim Batts | February 25, 2022NO EXIT (2022) – Review
If you’re thinking, “I’m so so sick of Winter with all the wind, snow, and icy blasts of...
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Cate Marquis | November 24, 2021HOUSE OF GUCCI – Review
HOUSE OF GUCCI is based on a true story, one filled with wealth, power, ambition, family, tradition, high...
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Mark Glass | October 6, 2021VENGEANCE IS MINE – Review
I wonder what percentage of action movies rely on our innate human desire to avenge a wrong? That...
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Jim Batts | May 14, 2021SPIRAL (2021) – Review
If there’s anyone that truly believes in the expression, “Everything old is new again”, they probably live in...
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Jim Batts | April 29, 2021THE VIRTUOSO – Review
So, here’s another example of a film that sports a somewhat misleading, or maybe a tad confusing title....
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Jim Batts | February 18, 2021I CARE A LOT – Review
This recent worldwide health crisis has been more than a “bump in the road” for increased lifespans. But...
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Jim Batts | December 10, 2020I’M YOUR WOMAN – Review
So, are you a film fan that gets a bit of seasonal movie overload this time of year?...
