Barbara Stanwyck plays a nurse hired to care for two ailing young children, and when their conditions worsen, she becomes suspicious of the doctor's methods in "Night Nurse." Director William A. Wellman ("Wings" 1927) put together a solid film with good acting, marvelous writing, and wonderful cinematography [..]

The Best Picture of 2025 is....."One Battle After Another." The story follows a former revolutionary who is forced back into his old combative ways after he is pursued by a corrupt military officer. Director-screenwriter Paul Thomas Anderson ("Magnolia" 1999) put together quite an absorbing [..]

After a series of deaths in a town, an expert, played by Lionel Barrymore, is called in and he determines they were caused by vampires in "Mark of the Vampire." Director Tod Browning put together a decent horror film with good writing, respectable performances, and the right amount [..]

Indiana Jones and his friends flee Shanghai, China, and end up in India where they help a village recover a sacred stone and attempt to free their children from a cult in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom." Executive producer George Lucas and director Steven [..]

"Murder She Said" is a crime drama about an elderly woman who witnesses a murder on a passing train. The police do not believe her when she reports the crime, so she goes undercover as a maid to solve the crime herself. Director George Pollock skillfully [..]

"Evening" is a drama film about a dying woman reminiscing through old memories with her two daughters in attendance. Director Lajos Koltai put together a movie with beautiful scenery and great cinematography, but with unfocused direction and sluggish, slow-moving dialogue from a terrible screenplay by Susan Minot and [..]

"Raiders of the Lost Ark" is the story of Indiana Jones, a globetrotting archeologist in 1936 vying with Nazi Germans to recover the long-lost Ark of the Covenant, which is said to make an army invincible. Director Steven Spielberg ("Jaws" 1975) expertly assembled this action-adventure classic with excellent [..]

"Marshall" is a biopic featuring Chadwick Boseman as Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American U. S. Supreme Court Justice, with the movie concentrating on the first case of his career in 1940. Director Reginald Hudlin ("Boomerang" 1992) put together an absorbing courtroom drama from a screenplay by Michael Koskoff [..]

"The Long Walk" is a dystopian futuristic thriller telling the story of fifty teenage boys competing in an annual walking contest. They must maintain a pace of three miles per hour without stopping or be executed. Director Francis Lawrence ("Red Sparrow" 2018) assembled [..]

"The Gatling Gun" is a Western movie about two Army deserters who steal their unit's gatling gun (the first machine gun) in order to attack a local Apache tribe. However, this results in both the Army and the Apaches going after them and the gun. [..]