Scheck on the Arts

Stephen Dorff plays an abusive MMA fighter who winds up in a match with his teenage son in Nick Sarkisov's drama Embattled. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Dana Nachman's documentary Dear Santa shines a light on the U.S. Postal Service's Operation Santa and the volunteers who adopt children's letters to St. Nick and attempt to fulfill their wishes. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Bella Thorne and Mickey Rourke star in Girl, Chad Faust's thriller about a young woman who finds trouble when she returns to her rural hometown. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Patrick Schwarzenegger and Michael Shannon star in Echo Boomers, Seth Savoy's thriller about a millennial gang of art thieves. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Malin Akerman plays a desperate woman who joins an underground fight club in the raunchy comedy Chick Fight, also starring Alec Baldwin and Bella Thorne. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Forest Whitaker plays a legendary toymaker in Netflix's elaborately produced holiday musical Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Two adult siblings encounter mysterious phenomena when they return to their family farm to say goodbye to their dying father in Bryan Bertino's horror film The Dark and the Wicked. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Nine young people wake up in the woods to discover they've ben strapped with suicide bombs in Alastair's Orr's thriller Triggered. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

After four tumultuous and often traumatic years, Americans were ready to cancel Donald Trump's reality show presidency. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook, click here.

-------Frank Scheck