A crew member of the Poseidon, a drilling rig seven miles under the sea, plops a creature on the dining…
Asher Luberto
Asher Luberto is a film critic based in sunny San Diego. His work has appeared on the websites Film Inquiry, FOX, NBC, Screen Anarchy, We Got This Covered, Punch Drunk Movies, and The Entertainer. He also is a firm believer that Andrei Tarkovsky is the greatest director of all time. And as of now, no one can convince him otherwise.
115 priests wander the Vatican as the Gregorian chant drowns out their conversations. What they are discussing is obvious: A new pope…
“When I grew up in Brooklyn no one committed suicide. Everyone was too unhappy” Woody Allen would famously joke. It’s…
“Lucy in the Sky” is a manifestation of Newton’s Law of Gravity. It starts with Natalie Portman’s Lucy up in space….
Who could have guessed that the race for best actor at the Oscars would be between Brad Pitt and Brad Pitt? As unlikely…
Life can be more than ups and downs, as “The Goldfinch” argues, it can be just downs. This drama/comedy means to…
Sorry to pop your balloon, but “It Chapter Two” is a mess. The second chapter in the clown saga feels as…
Issa Lopez was an archaeologist before she was a filmmaker, and it’s clear she took notes. Her latest, “Tigers Are…
The most obvious thing that “Good Boys” is missing is calmness. Also, bleakness and self-seriousness. In other words, it’s tremendous…
Jennifer Kent’s sophomore feature–her last film was the terrifically taught “Babadook”– opens with a close-up. If you look closely, it’s…
“Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbes and Shaw” is as overwrought as its title. It’s also overlong, overblown and over-the-top. That’s…
Remember when actors sold movies? Quentin Tarantino does. The director’s ninth feature–presumably his second to last– is a love poem…
“The Art of Self Defense” is a gender case studies that doesn’t feel like homework. In other words, your psychology…
What is a movie? Your film studies professor might have limited their definition to “a video moving at 24 frames…