One-line Film Review: Monkey Man (2024), starring Dev Patel

Monkey Man is a skillful and emotional Indian fantasy of revenge against the powerful who cruelly abuse the weak, including the poor and transgender.

One-line Film Review: Aftermath (2025), starring Dylan Sprouse

You’d think that, almost 40 years after the release of Die Hard, people would stop trying to make the next one without understanding what made it great.

One-line Film Review: Death Wish 3 (1985), starring Charles Bronson

This film takes the vigilante wish fulfillment to a new level with cops endorsing Bronson's vigilantism, locals cheering on daylight extrajudicial murder, and a 32-year-old blonde chasing 64-year-old Bronson just so she can be killed after they hook up.

One-line film review: Vampire Academy (2014), starring Zoey Deutch

Nothing could save this uninspired story of high-school-age vampires, half-vampires, and evil vampires, but boy howdy does Zoey Deutch's portrayal of a sarcastic badass who says what the audience is thinking come close.

One-Line Review: Hunter Killer (2018), starring Gerard Butler

This is the perfect movie to watch alongside The Hunt for Red October so you can see why one is good and one is this one.

One-Line Review: American Insurrection (2021), starring Nadine Malouf

Made with style, heart, and a sincere concern for the hate festering in the US, this is an exemplar of making the most of a limited budget that brilliantly sets a conversation at the centerpiece of the entire film.

One-Line Review: Behind Enemy Lines (1997), starring Thomas Ian Griffith

You don't want to watch a handful of Americans kill villainized Vietnamese by the dozens with bad scripts and editing, but if you did, Behind Enemy Lines (not Behind Enemy Lines of 2001 with Gene Hackman) is your movie.