Sam's Movie Review archive

*Designates academy award nominee. 

Current film review can be found here.

Reviews of 2020 films can be found here.

Reviews for 2019 can be found here.

Reviews for 2018 can be founder here. 

• 42 (2013)
• 1917 (2019)* 

• A Hidden Life (2019)
• A Star is Born (2018)*
• Adrift (2018) 
• Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
• All Eyez on Me (2017) 
• Alladin (2019)
• American Sniper (2015) 
• Anna (2019) 
• Apollo 11 (2019, documentary)
• Atomic Blonde (2017)
• Avengers
  • Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
  • Avengers: Infinity War (2018)* 

• Baby Driver (2017) 
• Bharat (2019, in Hindi w/ English subtitles) 
• Bird Box (2018)
• The Big Short (2015)
• Bombshell* (2019)  
• Black Panther (2018)*
• Blackkklansman (2018)*
• Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)*
• Book of Henry (2017)  
• Brave New World (2020, Peacock Network series)
• Bumblebee (2018)

• Can We Take a Joke (2016, documentary)
• Captain America: Civil War (2016)  
• Captain Marvel (2019)
  • Captain Marvel & storytelling (spoiler alert)
• Captive State (2019) 
• Crazy Rich Asians (2018)  
• Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words (2020)

• Da 5 Bloods (2020)
• Darkest Hour (2017)
• Dark Phoenix (2019)
• Dawn Patrol (1938)
• Deepwater Horizon 
  • ​​Deepwater Horizon and Visual Storytelling
• Detroit (2017)
• Divergent  Series 
  • Allegiant (2016)
• Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019)
• Dunkirk (2017)

• Equalizer 2 (2018)
• The Exception (2017)
• Eye in the Sky (2016)

• Fantastic Beasts and How to Find Them (2017)  
• The Favourite (2018)*  
• Fighting With My Family (2019)
• Five Feet Apart (2019)
• ​The Florida Project (2017)  
• Ford V Ferrari  (2019)*
• The Founder (2016)  
• Free Solo (documentary) (2019)*
• Free State of Jones (2016)

• The Great Gatsby (2013)  
• Green Book (2018)* 
  • Review & Analysis of Green Book 
  • My essay on Green Book and the 2019 Oscars
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 (2017)  
• The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)

• Hacksaw Ridge (2016)  
• Harriet  (2019)
• Hell or Highwater (2016)
  • Narrative storytelling and the role of guns
• ​Hidden Figures (2016)
• Hitman's Bodyguard (2017) 
• Kong: Skull Island (2017)  
• Hostiles 
• Hotel Artemis (2018) 
• Hotel Mumbai (2019)
• The Hunger Games
  • The Hunger Games (2012)
  • Catching Fire (2013)
  • Mockingjay (2015)
• The Hunting Ground (2015)  
• Hustlers (2019)

• I Am Woman (2019)
• If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)*  
• India's Most Wanted (2019, in Hindi w/ English subtitles)
• Interstellar (2014) 

• Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)
• Jason Bourne (2016) and visual storytelling 
• John Wick 3 (2019)
• JoJo Rabbit (2019)*
• Joker* (2019)
• Joy (2015)  
• Judy* (2019) 
• Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)  
• Just Mercy (2019)

• Knives Out (2019)

• La La Land (2016)    
• Lady Driver (2020)
• Last Christmas (2019)
• Little Pink House (2018)
• Logan  (2017)
• The Lone Ranger (2013)
• Loving (2016)

• Magnificent 7 (2016) 
• Man of Steel (2013) 
• Manchester-by-the-Sea (2016)  
• Marriage Story* (2019)
• Marshall (2017)  
• Mary Poppins Returns (2018)*
• ​Megan Leavy (2017)   
• Men in Black: International (2019)  
• Midway (2019)
• Miss Bala (2019)
• Miss Virginia (2019)
• Mission Impossible: Fallout (2018)
• Molly's Game (2017)
• Moonlight (2016)   
• Motherless Brooklyn (2019)  
• Mr. Jones (2020)  
• Mulan (2020) 

• Nomadland  (2020)

• Ocean's Eight (2018)   
• Once Upon A Time in Hollywood* (2019)
• Parasite (2019)*
• On the Basis of Sex (2018) 
• Pirates of the Caribbean
  • Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)
  • ​Hollywood vs real world of pirates

• Pope Francis (documentary) (2018)   
• Promising Young Woman (2020) 

• Queen and Slim (2019, including commentary)

• Ready Player One (2018)*
• RBG (2018, documentary)* 
• The Rhythm Section (2020)
• Richard Jewell* (2019)  - Commentary on controversy surrounding the movie can be found here.
• Rocketman* (2019)
• Roma (2018)*
  • My essay on Roma and the 2019 Oscars
• Run Hide Fight (2020)
• Run The Race (2019) 

• Set It Up (2018)
• Sergio (2020)
• The Shape  of Water  (2017)
• Silence (2016)
• Snowden (2016)  
• Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)*
• Spider-Man
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)  
  • Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
• Star Trek
  • Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013)
  • Star Trek Beyond (2016)
• Star Wars
  • Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
  •  The Rise of Skywalker (2019) 

• The Current War (2019)
• The Irishman* (2019)
• The Kid (2019)
• The Lighthouse (2019)
• The Outpost (2020)
• The Post (2017)
• The Promise (2017)   
• The Stand At Paxton County (2020)
• The Two Popes (717) 
• The Wife (2018)* 
• The Wolverine (2013) 
• Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
• Tomb Raider (2018) 

• A United Kingdom (2017)
  • ​Commentary on freedom in A United Kingdom  
• Unplanned (2019)

• Valerian and  the City of a  Thousand Planets (2017)
•  Vice (2018)*  

• Waco (2018, Netflix series)
  • Listen to my syndicated radio interview on the series 
• Will You be My Neighbor? (2018, documentary) 
• Wonder Woman (2017)
  • 5 not so obvious things to love about Wonder Woman
  • Wonder Woman Schools James Cameron on Strong Female  Characters 
  • Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

• Yesterday (2019)​