Fast Film Reviews

Rating 7/10 There is something comical about an anti-capitalist critique being sold as entertainment that demands you purchase a ticket within the very system it wants to indict.  But that contradiction is also part of the surreality.  Director Boots Riley has given us a work too gleefully ridiculous to be received as a solemn manifesto. […]

Rating 5/10 I’m old school.  When I see The Mandalorian and Grogu, my brain translates that as “Boba Fett and Baby Yoda.” Not the same, but adjacent to those characters.  For the uninitiated, Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal), aka the Mandalorian, comes from the same armored bounty-hunter tradition that made Boba Fett one of the coolest-looking […]

Rating 7/10 Obsession is a remarkably self-assured little horror picture, made on a shoestring, but it never looks cheap.  Yet one element kept me from fully accepting the premise: its lead protagonist does not behave like a normal person.  That may sound like a small complaint in a movie involving supernatural forces. Still, it becomes […]

Rating 6/10 Remarkably Bright Creatures bears the unmistakable hallmarks of a very specific breed of Netflix movie.  Before I ever pressed play, it looked like an inspirational tearjerker blessed with the comforting presence of Sally Field, doing her best to elevate material engineered for “pleasant background viewing.” And honestly?  My impression was pretty spot on...

Rating 5/10 Director Guy Ritchie has comfortably settled into the current phase of his career.  His pictures have become reliable entertainment destined for streaming.  Recent flicks like Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, The Covenant, and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare didn’t reinvent the action genre, but they delivered solid thrills through sheer mechanical effi...