Nobody Review - 100% Pure American Muscle
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Nobody stars Bob Odenkirk as Hutch: an unassuming everyman who lives an unsatisfying life mind-numbingly dedicated…
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Crisis Review - The Drugs, and the Film, Don't Work
In Crisis, director Nicholas Jarecki’s bleak crime-drama, the war on drugs is a losing battle. Based on true events, Crisis follows the lives of three characters, each of whom having been negatively…
The Croods: A New Age Review: A Paleo-Terrific Animated Romp, Right for all Ages
Powered by JustWatch An age has passed since we last saw The Croods (2013) on-screen. Its modest box-office take and rocky (pun intended) reception, not to mention countless production delays a…
i’m thinking of ending things Review - The Anti-Comfort Viewing You Need Right Now
Powered by JustWatch Rightio: Let’s get this over with. Existential cynicism; fractured romance; projective introspection; all of the hallmarks which transform Charlie Kaufman into a misanthrop…
Wendy Review - Ambitious Peter Pan Reimagining becomes Lost in Fantasy
The children of Wendy, Beasts of the Southern Wild director Benh Zeitlin’s ambitious reimagining of Peter Pan, long for an easy-breezy and frivolous existence a la Timon and Pumbaa. While there have…
Color Out Of Space Review - Yet Another Begrudging Ride on the Nicolas Cage-Express to Camp-city
Taking the supernatural sensibilities of H.P. Lovecraft’s beloved 1927 sci-fi tale and transporting into contemporary America, writer-director Richard Stanley overloads Color Out of Space with enough…
Queen & Slim Review - Love Takes the Wheel in Lena Waithe's Powerfully Political Outlaw Love Story
For Black Americans, being pulled over by police risks more than just an expensive fine. It becomes a matter of life and death. The manner whereby police interaction can escalate into gunfire has be…
Downhill Review – An Occasionally Raw, Occasionally Bumpy Relationship-Comedy
How would you react in a deadly emergency? Would you risk life and limb to assist others in the face of oncoming calamity? Or perhaps you pray to a higher being while seizing the opportunity to hold…
Honey Boy Review - Shia LaBeouf Stuns with This Confronting Look at Familial Neglect
This time last year, the mention of Shia LaBeouf’s name would have induced jeers, scoffs, and meat-headed impressions of the controversial former child-star. Once the driving force behind the billion…
The Invisible Man Review - An Important Look at Moving Forward After Trauma
The overwhelming sound of angry waves crashing against a rocky shoreline opens Australian director Leigh Whannell’s adaptation of H. G. Wells beloved sci-fi novel The Invisible Man. The sheer thud, b…
The Call of the Wild Review - True Grit with Digital Dogs
Every year or so, we get a family film like The Call of the Wild; the family-friendly dog movie following an adorable pooch on a spirited journey into self-fulfilment. While recent years have seen th…
A Hidden Life Review - Terrence Malick Captures the Spectrum of Human Emotion in Slow-burning War-drama
The lengths taken by Nazi forces during World War II to forcibly enlist Austrian townspeople is depicted with heart-rending intensity in Terrence Malick’s latest historical drama, A Hidden Life. Base…