The Vigil
Yiddish horror blends the secular and divine in terrifying ways
Matthew Monagle
1-30 of 138 entries
Movie Review, Feb. 26, 2021
Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo find a few laughs as vacationing friends
Movie Review, Feb. 19, 2021
Truth to Power
System of a Down documentary looks beyond the band
Movie Review, Feb. 19, 2021
The Little Things
Washington, Malek, and Leto never mesh in this uneven police procedural
Movie Review, Jan. 29, 2021
Saint Maud
Agony and ecstasy intertwined in this horror as Catholic angst turns self-destruction
Movie Review, Jan. 29, 2021
No Man's Land
Well-intentioned cross-border drama finds humanity on all sides
Movie Review, Jan. 22, 2021
Greenland
Gerard Butler brings back the classic disaster movie
Movie Review, Dec. 18, 2020
Matthew Monagle's Top 10 in Cinema in 2020
"A signal amongst the noise"
Screens, Dec. 17, 2020
Ip Man: Kung Fu Master
The Wing Chun master reshaped for modern Chinese political intentions
Movie Review, Dec. 11, 2020
Vanguard
Jackie Chan goes back to being Jackie Chan in this globe-trotting action-comedy
Movie Review, Nov. 20, 2020
Habitual
Overstuffed indie horror is like watching an OSHA violation
Movie Review, Nov. 13, 2020
Attack of the Demons
Animated horror creates a new genre: cardgore!
Movie Review, Oct. 30, 2020
Escape from Extinction
The important issue of global eco collapse becomes a PR push for zoos
Movie Review, Oct. 16, 2020
Push
Documentary exposes how faceless landlords turn homes into assets
Movie Review, Sept. 25, 2020
The Secrets We Keep
War crimes revisited in suburban America
Movie Review, Sept. 18, 2020
Critical Thinking
The true story of a chess team that rewrote the rules
Movie Review, Sept. 11, 2020
Fatima
Faith-based movie is better made and more frustrating than most
Movie Review, Aug. 28, 2020
Cut Throat City
RZA takes on New Orleans' history of racism through a B-movie lens
Movie Review, Aug. 21, 2020
The Pale Door
Witches versus cowboys in the weird, weird West
Movie Review, Aug. 21, 2020
Sputnik
Russian sci-fi horror is a welcome break from all the '80s throwbacks
Movie Review, Aug. 14, 2020
In My Blood It Runs
How erasure of Aboriginal culture splits the life of one boy
Movie Review, June 26, 2020
A Clear Shot
Pulled-from-the-headlines hostage drama misses the target and the point
Movie Review, June 5, 2020
Fourteen
Scenes from a collapsing friendship captured with astonishing empathy
Movie Review, June 5, 2020
Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy
From Essex to Michoacán: the true story of the English exponent of Mexican cooking
Movie Review, May 22, 2020
Blood Quantum
Pioneering First Nation zombie film rips the genre away from traditional hands
Movie Review, May 8, 2020
Demons on the Set of Cursed Films
New series on Shudder asks why we want to believe in evil
Screens, April 2, 2020
The Way Back
Affleck gets courtside in a tale of basketball redemption
Movie Review, March 13, 2020
Bloodshot
Vin Diesel at his most Vin Diesel in this smash mouth comic adaptation
Movie Review, March 13, 2020
The Traitor
True-life Mafia story inverts the conventions
Movie Review, March 13, 2020
The Invisible Man
Universal Monsters update thrills as a high-octane Gaslight
