Tag: 5 Star Video

Pure post-war spectacle, The Dam Busters isn't concerned with the after effects, only the national pride that led to a British victory.

Although following a template, Pixar adds unique touches of their own in A Bug's Life, including a subtly brilliant credit sequence.

While concluding on a slew of almost incomprehensible fighting, Ultraman Geed's closing chapter respects culture and excels in creating personalities.

1917 isn't a film that revolutionizes war cinema with storytelling, but with technique that refuses to relent or offer a reprieve.

While challenging social norms and casting Karloff as a vicious, manipulative husband, The Climax lacks any energy or drive in its storytelling.

While taking pieces from multiple genre films prior, My Bloody Valentine finds a way to instill a slasher with working class fears.

Full of the same energy and wit, Beverly Hills Cop II loses only the lightest subtext in exchange for more (and bolder) action.

Eddie Murphy returns as Axel Foley in Beverly Hills Cop III, but this is an entirely different Foley - and hardly entertaining as a result.

While daring in tackling a core American value, Gemini Man's script punches too hard and falls to countless thriller cliches in doing so.

While still producing a pure fantasy romance, there's an honesty to Princess and the Frog's fable that's often missing in Disney animation.

Pennywise returns in this long but satisfactory sequel, It: Chapter Two, bringing adult stars like Jessica Chastain into the supernatural battle.

Kubrick's The Shining doubles as a paranormal horror movie, but works best in its depiction of domestic abuse and the isolation it causes.