Criminally Underrated: Message in a Bottle Message in a Bottle almost exists in a different realm entirely—one on the precipice of a new millennium while still continually stuck in the age of ‘90s rom-coms. Read More
Criminally Underrated: The Counselor The blend of Cormac McCarthy’s cowboy navel-gazing and Ridley Scott’s insistence to play things both perfectly straight and absolutely absurd makes it stand out from the filmmaker’s storied and wildly inconsistent filmography. Read More
Criminally Underrated: A Perfect World Some of the most delicate work Eastwood has ever done. Read More
Criminally Underrated: Maleficent Maleficent is the quintessential strong female lead who doesn't need to adopt traditionally masculine qualities to defeat the men arrayed against her. Read More
Criminally Underrated: Too Late Remains the greatest entry in the strange milieu of Tarantino knock-off cinema, despite being all but written off at the time of its release. Read More
Criminally Underrated: Mirror Mirror Roberts’ layered, campy performance of the Evil Queen, as well as the reflection in her magic mirror, is in itself a work of art. Read More
Criminally Underrated: The Girl Next Door Deserves another look as a forgotten masterpiece of 2000s-era sex comedies. Read More
Criminally Underrated: Uptown Girls Uptown Girls is not only supposed to be about learning to act your age but also of the dangers of growing up too soon. Read More
Criminally Underrated: 13 Going on 30 Hopefully, by the time the film itself is “30, flirty, and thriving!” it will get the respect it deserves. Read More
Criminally Underrated: The Fate of the Furious The Fate of the Furious challenges us to consider the tangibly individual scale next to the globally catastrophic. Read More