Movie reviews of Don Shanahan

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

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

A moving artistic interpretation of one of those such moments.

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

Exudes strong themes of guilt across several points of view.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stanley Tucci is a cinematic treasure of sarcasm.

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

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

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

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

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

You will undoubtedly get your mind’s worth and your money’s worth stepping up the cerebral challenge of this film.

The premise may be innocent enough, but the hijinks that ensue jolt with their own sinisterly comedic glee.

While the acting is inarguably impressive, not all of the chatty circles along the way maintain a strong interest level...

Brims with allegory and is strikingly shot. However, the film’s compelling qualities never seem to match its obscene effort towards the art.

Strides proudly and powerfully with every progressive step as one of the best MCU films we’ve ever seen.

The film may not be entirely sweeping and captivating, but all can marvel at Vega’s lead performance of pure poignancy.