Soren Andersen has been writing about movies since he was in high school, back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. He has written for papers in Southern California and Washington, and was the staff critic at the News Tribune in Tacoma for 25 years.
Yes, it’s violent. But the breakneck way director Chad Stahelski piles wild action scenes atop even wilder scenes makes this latest entry in the “John...
If you like Pokemon, then you’ll find a whole lot to like here. The human characters in this very busy movie are literally up to...
Thanks to the excellence of its key performances by Ethan Hawke and Noomi Rapace, “Stockholm” is an uncommonly effective crime thriller, one with a heart...
Flightless waterfowl in formalwear are front and center in Disney’s live-action nature documentary. Rating: 2.5 stars out of 4.
Unlike “Coraline” and “Kubo and the Two Strings,” movies tinged with darkness and mystery, the stop-motion animation studio Laika has gone brighter and simpler in...
This remake of the spattery 1989 horror hit is marred by pallid performances and slow pacing. Rating: 1.5 stars out of 4.
In a harsh Nevada desert landscape, French director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre has made a stringent tale of a struggle for redemption involving an angry prison...
Tim Burton’s command of the material and his masterful visual sense makes this live-action remake of the beloved 1941 Disney animated classic an engaging delight....
The bloody four-day terrorist siege of India’s largest city in 2008 is graphically depicted in this drama starring Dev Patel. Rating: 3 stars out of...
“The Hummingbird Project” offers cogent, though complicated, commentary on the way unbridled avarice powers the search for even the smallest advantage in the cutthroat world...