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Aubrey Plaza shines in her dramatic role in "Emily the Criminal."

Plaza steals the show in dramatic role

Written by Brent Leuthold on September 14, 2022.

Playing at Cinema Center this weekend, Emily the Criminal is both a stunning debut for writer/director John Patton Ford and another outstanding showing...

"Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul." has great performances from Regina Hall and Sterling K. Brown.

Performances can’t save uneven script

Written by Brent Leuthold on September 7, 2022.

Last September, The Eyes of Tammy Faye took the straight-laced biopic approach to telling the story of a pastor’s wife standing alongside her husband...

True-life tale shows veteran’s struggle

Written by Brent Leuthold on August 31, 2022.

Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival this year with the name 892, the now-retitled thriller Breaking introduces us to beleaguered Lance Cpl. Brian...

Orphan: First Kill registers as a mild success.

Adopt low expectations to enjoy ‘First Kill’

Written by Brent Leuthold on August 24, 2022.

On a list of films unlikely to generate a prequel for release in 2022, the 2009 horror film Orphan would have to rank somewhere close to the top of...

‘Bodies’ struggles to find an identity

Written by Brent Leuthold on August 17, 2022.

Bodies Bodies Bodies is a movie that tries so hard to be several different things that it doesn’t amount to much of anything in the end. It wants to...

"Official Competition" is a fun look inside the film industry.

Comedy removes veil from film industry

Written by Brent Leuthold on August 10, 2022.

After the would-be comedy The Bubble burst on Netflix this spring, we now have another comedy that skewers the film industry, but goes about it in...

Thriller lacks properly developed characters

Written by Brent Leuthold on July 27, 2022.

Three films into his career, writer/director Jordan Peele has established himself as a rare breed in Hollywood: a creative force with a distinctive...

"Where the Crawdads Sing" is one you can skip.

Too many missed notes in novel adaptation

Written by Brent Leuthold on July 20, 2022.

Based on the massively popular novel by the same name, the new period drama Where the Crawdads Sing tells the story of Kya Clark (Daisy Edgar-Jones),...