Soaring on the Wings of Eagles: Chariots of Fire at 40
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. The Academy Awards are no stranger to controversy, as this year's ceremony attests, generating heated think-pie…
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The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It Review - Inferior In Every Way
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. The Conjuring Universe hasn’t been that consistent. The two Conjuring-titled films and Annabelle: Creation worked w…
Cruella Review - Please Stop Doing This, Disney
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Here we are again. Another live-action remake/re-imagining of a Disney animated film. With a heavy sigh, we go once…
A Quiet Place Part II Review - A Superior Sequel Crafted with Superb Skill
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. It’s been a long time coming. A Quiet Place Part II is finally here after more than a year of delays and postponem…
Army of the Dead Review - Just Another Zack Snyder Film, For Better and Worse
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Two Zack Snyder movies in one year? Can the internet handle cinema at that magnitude? I speak ironically of course…
Spiral: From the Book of Saw Review - Chris Rock, You’ve Made a Gore Fan Out of Me
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Just when you thought game-time was over, the Saw-adjacent spinoff, Spiral, possesses all the hallmarks of its ilk,…
The Woman in the Window Review - A Thriller That Forgets to be Thrilling
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. When a film’s test screenings are described as “poor” to the point that said movie is delayed 7 months to accommoda…
Spiral: From the Book of Saw Review - Same Thing, Different Day
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. In 2011, Saw was practically dead as a franchise. It had started small and respectable, James Wan and Leigh Whannel…
Those Who Wish Me Dead Review - A Respectable But Unmemorable Neo-Western
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Directed and co-written by Taylor Sheridan (director of Wind River and writer of Sicario and Hell or High Water), T…
Mortal Kombat Review - Ticking Boxes and Nothing More
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. It is entirely possible to attend a screening that is preceded by a Q&A with the film’s director and one of the…
Small Axe Review - One of the Best Pieces of Filmmaking from 2020
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Small Axe is the latest creative work from filmmaker Steve McQueen, the Oscar-winning director of Hunger, Shame, 12…
First Cow Review - A Masterwork of Gentle Filmmaking
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow is quite simply a masterwork of gentle filmmaking that through the lens of a small stor…