Movie reviews of Don Shanahan

What greatly overcomes these failings are Dunkirk’s incomparable production value and technical prowess. Review

Everyone involved is clearly having a blast with this raucous stage and creatively uncouth material. The trouble is consistency. Review

Lowery’s chamber piece summons and subverts the precepts of a traditional spectral fable to striking results. Review

Nimbly moves with a constant levity, even when the potential for heavy drama invades. Review

His style of pluck and mettle for this character is a breath of fresh air. Review

Andy Serkis has taken the potential of performance capture technology and turned it into precision of unparalleled heights. Review

Perfect preposterous escapism for the summer season. Review

The charm never reaches a boiling point. Review

A triumph of physical comedy filled with unpredictable errors, adorable characters, and burlesque stylings. Review

The landscape of the enriching love across parents and children is pitch perfect. The attempts at trepidatious suspense away from that recklessly miss. Review

Goes behind-the-scenes and into the recording studios to watch the mad scientists in action. Review

Sam Elliott composes ever fiber of his range and stature into this role. Review

Hen that heart gear hits, all of the repetitiveness washes away to a satisfying series of smiles... Review

A thicker and spicier brew of intrigue and tension applied to this story could have gone a long way... Review

Loach’s realism is backed by boundless heart that can squeeze tears from even the stoutest viewer. Review

Operates with purposeful mystery to respect and challenge the intelligence of its audience to piece together its many open-ended and unanswered questions. Review

Offers a rare lead performance from Cox and, like the chameleon he’s always been, he reminds us of his indomitable intensity. Review

Deserves every opportunity to earn each piece of that dictionary definition of "wonder."... Review

One of the best directing and writing filmmaking debuts of a comedian in recent memory. This is an absolute treat. Review

The gumshoe plot and increasingly terrible CGI effects unravel the film in a hurry after a breezy first half, but enough enjoyment is still easy to rescue. Review

Scott has assembled a top-shelf collection of artistic talent to expand upon the hellishly stunning level of designs and atmospheric creations from Prometheus. Review

A meal this rich shouldn’t be this empty. Review

A brazen explosion of Crayola-sheened special effects wonder mixed with invisible grays of magnetic character growth and depth. Review

Melodramas deserve lavish accoutrement and Love, Lies does not disappoint. Review