A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE
“The sight of military personnel responding to an actual crisis rather than being wasted on political theater strikes a nostalgic chord, and the sense that we’re watching a well-organized, competent government respond to an existential threat seems like it belongs to a different political era.” – Killian Melloy, Cinesaurus Rex
RUNNING FOR THE MOUNTAINS
“Mining is a deeply traditional occupation in West Virginia, but it’s only become more environmentally destructive even as forms of energy production such as wind and solar have become more effective alternatives.” – Killian Melloy, Cinesaurus Rex
LAST DAYS
“Where does devotion cross into delusion? Where does a desire for friendship darken into forcing oneself onto others? The movie asks these questions, along with other, equally disturbing ones.” – Killian Melloy, Cinesaurus Rex
“Watching two veteran actors bringing their characters to life is one of many possible pleasures at the movies. Watching them struggle in vain against a script that’s just spinning its wheels is not. The Rule Of Jenny Pen – a purported psychological thriller – is the latter.” 
“Aladdin 3477- I: The Jinn of Wisdom takes the Aladdin story into the 35th century and then moves the action from the Middle East to southeast Asia. The question is whether there’s an audience for it.” 
“As thin as Ben is on the page, Latif’s performance makes him practically transparent. He starts as a scumbag and only grows scummier as the story movies along.”
“My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock is an unusual approach to the oeuvre of filmdom’s ‘Master Of Suspense.’ Some forty years after his death, it imagines him coming back and discussing his life and career from a modern perspective. It is audacious and it works.”
“Tom Hardy and director Kelly Marcel made a film that was joyless and cynical.” 
“In the end, Hangdog is just a shaggy dog story in search of a punchline.”
“Marcellus Cox makes a powerful debut with his first feature film, Mickey Hardaway.” 
“The Mattachine Family shows that we’ve come a long way from a time when a character being gay was the “issue” the film needed to address. Instead, in focusing on the particular lives of these characters, it succeeds in speaking about friendship and family in ways that ought to connect to everyone.”