Office Romance Review: Jennifer Lopez Deserves Better Material Than This
The romantic comedy is a genre that forgives a lot but rewards sincerity above all else. Get the bones right,...
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The romantic comedy is a genre that forgives a lot but rewards sincerity above all else. Get the bones right, believe in your characters, and audiences will meet you halfway. Mistake formula for substance, and the warmth curdles fast. Office Romance, Netflix's latest star vehicle, positions itself as something of a throwback: directed by Ol Parker (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Ticket to Paradise), co-written by and starring Brett Goldstein alongside his Ted Lasso collaborator Joe Kelly, with Jennifer Lopez heading the cast. The setup is crisp. Jackie Cruz (Lopez) runs Air Cruz, a small but growing airline she...

The original Scary Movie arrived in 2000 as a gleefully crude torpedo aimed at the slasher revival, and four sequels followed. By the time the fifth installment limped into theaters in 2013, stripped of its original creative architects and drained of its signature anarchy, the series had become something close to a mercy case. The Weinstein Company had commandeered the franchise for chapters three through five, and the results spoke plainly: the Wayans brothers' particular brand of comedy requires the Wayans brothers. Thirteen years passed. Now they are back, with Anna Faris, Regina Hall, and the numbering abandoned. The new...

The Highest Stakes treats poker less like a sport and closer to ritual theater. Five strangers arrive at a luxury hotel for a private tournament with a $20 million jackpot, the kind of premise that suggests slick card-table psychology, expensive suits, and smug men pretending mathematics is destiny. The film has some of that, yet its real interest lies elsewhere. This is a revenge thriller disguised as a poker movie, with mystery-box construction, faint supernatural shading, and a nasty little moral engine turning underneath the velvet surface. The setup is pulpy in a pleasingly old-fashioned way: strangers trapped in a...

The Easy Kind studies the price of artistic freedom through EC, a lightly fictionalized version of Elizabeth Cook, played by Cook herself with a nervy mix of charm, fatigue, and cigarette-burn wit. EC is a Nashville country singer-songwriter who chose her own voice over the industry’s smoother machinery. That decision has given her dignity, authorship, and the kind of integrity people love to praise from a safe distance. It has also left her with unpaid repairs, shrinking opportunities, a leaky roof, and a career that seems respected without feeling secure. Katy Chevigny shapes the film as a hybrid portrait, combining...

Stonemachia, the debut Soulslike from Crossfall Games, has the kind of premise that could collapse under its own eccentricity: a chess-themed action RPG set in a warped Italian fantasy realm where angels behave like a plague. Instead, its strange logic gives the game a sharp identity. You play as Zefiro, a lowly pawn moving through Medhelan, a distorted vision of Milan scarred by the Plague of Angels. These angels have seeped into statues, fountains, ornaments, and sacred architecture, turning beauty into threat. The game moves with the shape of a Soulslike, yet its pulse is faster and more aggressive. It...

Patrick Wang’s A. Rimbaud takes the biopic and strips it down until only the volatile core remains. There are no sweeping recreations of 19th-century Paris, no bustling cafés packed with poets, no decorative period pageantry to reassure the viewer. Instead, Wang places Arthur Rimbaud inside a black-box theatrical space and lets Blake Draper carry the film across 175 minutes, from the poet’s reckless youth to his later life as a colonial merchant and envoy. The central device sounds almost perversely risky: Rimbaud is the only visible speaking figure, while everyone around him is represented through musical instruments. Lovers, relatives, rivals,...
The romantic comedy is a genre that forgives a lot but rewards sincerity above all else. Get the bones right,...
Read moreDetailsThe original Scary Movie arrived in 2000 as a gleefully crude torpedo aimed at the slasher revival, and four sequels...
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Read moreDetailsHenry Cavill has signed on to star opposite Kevin Hart in an untitled Netflix spy action-comedy directed by McG, completing the lead duo for a project that assembles some of Hollywood's most commercially savvy producers. The film, based on a short story by Sean Lewis, centers on two rival spies...
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The romantic comedy is a genre that forgives a lot but rewards sincerity above all else. Get the bones right, believe in your characters, and audiences will meet you halfway....
The original Scary Movie arrived in 2000 as a gleefully crude torpedo aimed at the slasher revival, and four sequels followed. By the time the fifth installment limped into theaters...
The Highest Stakes treats poker less like a sport and closer to ritual theater. Five strangers arrive at a luxury hotel for a private tournament with a $20 million jackpot,...
The Easy Kind studies the price of artistic freedom through EC, a lightly fictionalized version of Elizabeth Cook, played by Cook herself with a nervy mix of charm, fatigue, and...
Stonemachia, the debut Soulslike from Crossfall Games, has the kind of premise that could collapse under its own eccentricity: a chess-themed action RPG set in a warped Italian fantasy realm...
Patrick Wang’s A. Rimbaud takes the biopic and strips it down until only the volatile core remains. There are no sweeping recreations of 19th-century Paris, no bustling cafés packed with...
Stonemachia, the debut Soulslike from Crossfall Games, has the kind of premise that could collapse under its own eccentricity: a...
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