Sam's Movie Review archive

  *Designates academy award nominee. 

Reviews for 2019 can be found here.

Reviews for 2018 can be founder here. 

• A Star is Born (2018)*
• Adrift (2018)
• All Eyez on Me (2017)
• American Sniper (2015)
• Atomic Blonde (2017)
• Avengers
  • Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
  • Avengers: Infinity War (2018)* 
• Baby Driver (2017) 
• Bird Box (2018)
• The Big Short (2015) 
• Black Panther (2018)*
• Blackkklansman (2018)*
• Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)*
• Book of Henry (2017)
• Bumblebee (2018)
• Can We Take a Joke (2016, documentary)
• Captain America: Civil War (2016)  
• Crazy Rich Asians (2018) 
• Darkest Hour (2017)
• Deepwater Horizon 
  • ​​Deepwater Horizon and Visual Storytelling
• Detroit (2017)
• Divergent  Series 
  • Allegiant
• Dunkirk (2017)  
• Equalizer 2 (2018)
• The Exception (2017)
• Eye in the Sky (2016)
• Fantastic Beasts and How to Find Them (2017)  
• The Favourite (2018)*
• ​The Florida Project (2017)
• The Founder (2016)  
• Free Solo (documentary) (331)*
• 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)
• Hell or Highwater (2016)
  • Narrative storytelling and the role of guns
• ​Hitman's Bodyguard (2017) 
• Kong: Skull Island (2017)  
• Hostiles 
• Hotel Artemis (2018)
• The Hunger Games
  • The Hunger Games (2012)
  • Catching Fire (2013)
  • Mockingjay (2015)
• The Hunting Ground (2015)
• Hidden Figures (2016)  
• If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)*
• Interstellar (2014) 
• Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
• Jason Bourne (2016) and visual storytelling 
• Joy (2015)  
• Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
• La La Land (2016)  
• Little Pink House (2018)
• Logan  (2017)
• The Lone Ranger (2013)
• Loving (2016)
• Magnificent 7 (2016) 
• Man of Steel (2013) 
• Manchester-by-the-Sea (2016)
• Marshall (2017)  
• Mary Poppins Returns (2018)*
• ​Megan Leavy (2017)  
• Mission Impossible: Fallout (2018)
• Molly's Game (2017)
• Moonlight (2016)  
• Ocean's Eight (2018)  
• 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)
• The Post (2017)
• The Promise (2017)  
• Ready Player One (2018)*
• RBG (2018, documentary)*
• Roma (2018)*
  • My essay on Roma and the 2019 Oscars
• Set It Up (2018)
• The Shape  of Water  (2017)
• Silence (2016)
• Snowden (2016)  
• Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)*
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) 
• Star Trek
  • Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013)
  • Star Trek Beyond (2016)
• Star Wars
  • Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
• Tomb Raider (2018)
• A United Kingdom (2017)
  • ​Commentary on freedom in A United Kingdom
•  Valerian and  the City of a  Thousand Planets (2017)
•  Vice (2018)*  
• Waco (2018, Netflix series)
  • Listen to my syndicated radio interview on the series 
• The Wife (2018)*
• Will You be My Neighbor? (2018, documentary) 
• The Wolverine (2013)​
• Wonder Woman (2017)
  • 5 not so obvious things to love about Wonder Woman
  • Wonder Woman Schools James Cameron on Strong Female  Characters