Movie reviews of Don Shanahan

Because everything derivative is done with so much spunk, sizzle, and precision, the end result is still a bountiful amusement of zesty kicks. Review

No matter how hard the narrative gets, you won’t be able to look away. This movie will hit you. Review

Tighter than Hell or High Water and more humane than Sicario... Review

No matter how on the nose it can be in brief moments, the overall messages delivered by Al Gore ring incredibly true and cognizant... Review

The ineffective length, the nonsensical plot, threadbare mythology, leashed acting, and limited thrills... Review

Weinstein writes and directs what constitutes as a love letter to a culture, a community, and to the essence of fatherhood. Review

Lacks zip, zilch, and zero in the style department. Review

Let the emotions, good and bad, come and talk about them. Review

What greatly overcomes these failings are Dunkirk’s incomparable production value and technical prowess. Review

Everyone involved is clearly having a blast with this raucous stage and creatively uncouth material. The trouble is consistency. Review

Lowery’s chamber piece summons and subverts the precepts of a traditional spectral fable to striking results. Review

Nimbly moves with a constant levity, even when the potential for heavy drama invades. Review

His style of pluck and mettle for this character is a breath of fresh air. Review

Andy Serkis has taken the potential of performance capture technology and turned it into precision of unparalleled heights. Review

Perfect preposterous escapism for the summer season. Review

The charm never reaches a boiling point. Review

A triumph of physical comedy filled with unpredictable errors, adorable characters, and burlesque stylings. Review

The landscape of the enriching love across parents and children is pitch perfect. The attempts at trepidatious suspense away from that recklessly miss. Review

Goes behind-the-scenes and into the recording studios to watch the mad scientists in action. Review

Sam Elliott composes ever fiber of his range and stature into this role. Review

Hen that heart gear hits, all of the repetitiveness washes away to a satisfying series of smiles... Review

A thicker and spicier brew of intrigue and tension applied to this story could have gone a long way... Review

Loach’s realism is backed by boundless heart that can squeeze tears from even the stoutest viewer. Review

Operates with purposeful mystery to respect and challenge the intelligence of its audience to piece together its many open-ended and unanswered questions. Review