Kurt Loder

1 week ago | creators.com | Kurt Loder

Over the course of nearly 30 years, director Wes Anderson has built an avid following with his distinctive films, from the 1996 "Bottle Rocket" to the 2014 "Grand Budapest Hotel." Most of his movies, with their toybox sets and locked-down pictorial style, look like no others.

2 weeks ago | creators.com | Kurt Loder

What's the coolest stunt Tom Cruise has pulled off over the course of his 29 years of "Mission: Impossible" movies? Would it be the spectacular climb up (and run back down) the side of Dubai's Burj Khalifa skyscraper in the fourth film, "Ghost Protocol"? Or maybe the high-flying motorcycle/parachute leap in the seventh one, "Dead Reckoning"? Or, quite possibly, the lightning-lashed jump-plane bailout very high over Paris in "Fallout," the sixth picture in the (till now, maybe) never-ending series.

4 weeks ago | creators.com | Kurt Loder

Down here south of the border, Canada is often coded as mild-mannered and bland. But look closely beneath the surface of such choice Canadian films as David Cronenberg's "Videodrome" or Atom Egoyan's "Chloe" and you find dark things squirming around. Jason Buxton's "Sharp Corner" is very much this sort of picture. It begins high in a sunny sky looking down at a forest road along which a small car is making its way.

1 month ago | creators.com | Kurt Loder

At its best, which is pretty much whenever Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively are onscreen together, "Another Simple Favor" approaches the near-perfection of the 2018 movie that preceded it. If the new picture doesn't quite achieve the elevated state of the first one, the fault lies in its madly complicated storyline and, oddly, the sunny distractions of a Mediterranean spring on the isle of Capri, a setting that slightly undermines the mean-girl sass that made the previous film so much fun.

1 month ago | creators.com | Kurt Loder

"The Accountant" was a zinglessly titled Ben Affleck crime thriller that came out nine years ago, did OK at the box office, and left no buzz behind. No one was crying out for a sequel, and yet here we have one. And the surprising thing about "The Accountant 2" is how much fun it is. If you were planning to go see "The Amateur" or "A Working Man" at the 'plex this weekend, let me save you a letdown.