Killer Movie Reviews

THE SOCIAL RECKONING is an Aaron Sorkin oeuvre, and so it is to be expected that it is a film rife with intelligence, an incisive grasp of the weighty issues with which it is concerned, and a gift for making it both accessible and an emotionally charged thriller. Continuing the story of THE SOCIAL NETWORK, it skips a decade or two in the life of Mark Zuckerberg (Jeremy Strong...

Believe me, I do not say this lightly. Not since DR. STRANGELOVE has there been a better black comedy, a more effectively savage satire than DIGGER. Alejandro G. Iñárritu has crafted a film that does more than merely point the finger at the evils of unbridled capitalism and government collusion (corruption, if you prefer). Rather, it, ahem digs uncomfortably at the infrastruc...

THE HEART OF THE BEAST is first and foremost designed for those of us who understand that on the level of loyalty and affection in its purest and most unselfish form, dogs are better than we are. They just are. I’m not sure we deserve them, but here is a film that they deserve.

The dog is Odin, played by four German Shepherds who each deserve an Oscar®. He, like his co...

BY ANY MEANS, based on actual events, asks difficult questions and provides even more difficult answers. Set in the Mississippi of 1966, it reveals the quasi-confirmed revelations about Klan murders of civil rights activists that were investigated not by the FBI, but rather by a Mafia hitman who was brought in to get information that the FBI couldn’t using legal means. The fi...