Sean Penn

While Paul Thomas Anderson has made films more critically acclaimed than "One Battle After Another," his new film still reaches the level of his best work

Star-making turns from Cooper Hoffman and Alana Haim help make Paul Thomas Anderson’s "Licorice Pizza" possibly one of the director’s best films.

It feels so odd to have an Angry Birds film in 2016. It was an app, whose target audience was supposedly children, created in 2009 and, by 2012, it had sold 12 million copies. Throughout the years, there have been many variations of the app, but the main point of the game always dealt with angry birds and shooting those same birds at some sort of target. Now, ten years later, is the feature-length...[Read More]

While certainly loud, somewhat sexy, and decked out in all the accurate aesthetic trappings of 1930s Los Angeles, Gangster Squad turns out to be merely a dim cousin to sincere works like L.A. Confidential or Michael Mann’s intimate Public Enemies due to a battery of corny, faux-noir line readings and the bludgeoning candy-gore sensibility of Zombieland and 30 Minutes or Less director Ruben Fleisch...[Read More]

Terrence Malick’s new drama, The Tree of Life, is reminiscent of his previous work, such as The Thin Red Line (1998), in that it is a film that focuses largely on ideas brought to life through cinematography. Although The Tree of Life does revolve around the story of a family, the movie is structured more through concept than plot. For example, the story isn’t told in a familiar, linear fashion, b...[Read More]