Movie reviews of Don Shanahan

1959, Fantasy, Animation, Comedy

Efficient and effective for education through charm.

2018, Adventure, Fantasy, Action, Science fiction

This saga’s newest peak is an expanse of scorched earth that stings, shocks, lingers, and satisfies.

2018, Drama, Love

The culminating dreadful tension and high intrigue created by Weisz and McAdams is incredibly palpable...

2018, Drama, Horror

The frazzled and twitchy traits come forth from committed performances especially from the three case subjects.

2016, Adventure, Fantasy, Animation

An excellent place for teens to soak in some much-needed empathy against the more mindless American animated offerings.

2017, Drama, Suspense, Crime

Frozen by disturbing memories, the blunt object that is Lynne Ramsay’s award-winning potboiler is far more hulking than a quick death by bullet.

2018, Drama, Comedy

It banks on mixing sentiment built on pleasantries laced with profanity.

2018, Adventure, Fantasy, Action, Science fiction

Johnson has the charisma and clout to hit the cinematic strongman game enough to make a terrible movie OK when it comes to Rampage.

Drama

A moving artistic interpretation of one of those such moments.

2018, Drama, Horror, Suspense, Science fiction

Combining a slick creature-feature with a chamber piece of deadly silence that immerses the audience in compelling thrills.

2017, Drama

Exudes strong themes of guilt across several points of view.

2018, Comedy, Love

Plays smart with its narrative development where wit wins over gross-out humor every time.

2018, Fantasy, Drama

Stands as one of the most unafraid and imaginative films of recent memory to portray the thorny truths of teen depression.

2018, Adventure, Science fiction

Spielberg and company have created a grand quest with a marching band’s worth of bells and whistles.

2018, Drama, Action, History, Western

Proves big budgets are far from necessary to produce thrilling heat and an aura of tenacity.

2018, Drama, History

Hyatt’s film comports itself well to share these beliefs in an artful and compelling fashion.

2018, Drama, War

The most fitting and laudable word to compliment the Journey’s End ensemble is maturity.

2018, Drama, Comedy

The challenge remains the wanton recklessness of the character arcs that make for a scattered story...

2018, Drama

Stanley Tucci is a cinematic treasure of sarcasm.

2017, Comedy, History

Wears a giant badge of pride next to a tiny medallion of shame on its cinematic uniform on being banned in four nations...

Fantasy, Love

Asks a great deal of its audience for the allowance of disbelief.

2017, Drama

The compassion Doran's film stirs for economic and social challenges is genuine and resolute.

2017, Drama, Mystery

Weaves an intellectual web to test these limits inside a unique psyche better than films ten times its length.

2018, Adventure, Fantasy, Science fiction

A film that probably needed to stretch its world-building into a richly-detailed TV mini-series with a step up in maturity...