The effects are scarcely special, and Bushwick locals will have many bones to pick, but somehow the movie gets to you, with its doomy political soothsaying.

| Sep 4, 2017

Delivering knockout action and political punch, this blazing siren of a B movie imagines America at civil war with vicious force. Sequel, please.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 31, 2017

The film works as a hollow tale of "resistance", with less of a stake in the politics of collective action than in the visceral business of individual survival.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 27, 2017

The logistics interested me more than the shallow plot.

| Aug 26, 2017

The screenplay promises more excitement than it delivers, fails to develop characters beyond their most tertiary identities, and belly-flops even as political satire.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 25, 2017

What could have been a great B-movie winds up being merely solid.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 25, 2017

This movie will lose the goodwill of any longtime New Yorker watching it within the first ten minutes.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 25, 2017

Bushwick is an unpolished work, but there's an adrenalin charge, sure thing. It's close combat and it's closer than most Americans might wish to believe.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 25, 2017

"Bushwick" is an uncompromising film that makes the most of whatever budget constraints it was filmed under and has a from-the-ground-up realism that makes it almost uncomfortable to watch.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 25, 2017

The sort of thing your Dad might watch on his day off work, and then completely forget about.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 25, 2017

A chilling idea and an interesting central performance are undercut by pretty much everything else in this apocalyptic action film about a second American Civil War.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 24, 2017

Early on, it becomes obvious that "Bushwick" is hiding invisible cuts in these long takes, but it's not nearly as seamlessly executed as it was in "Birdman." As a result, it becomes too easy to focus on where those cuts are awkwardly occurring.

| Aug 24, 2017

Snow and Bautista deliver serviceable performances, and glimmers of humour give welcome relief in this darkly moody tale.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 24, 2017

90 minutes of real time that feels like five minutes of story and eighty-five minutes of "Why am I following these people and their every walking/running step?"

| Aug 24, 2017

The filmmakers feign boldness in tackling national politics, but revert to coyness and caricature when it comes to local matters, gesturing toward a multiculturalism that isn't even skin deep and sweeping gentrification under the rug.

| Aug 24, 2017

Some dodgy acting and iffy line-readings put a downer on this action thriller with a very topical slant.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 24, 2017

A satirist might have spun this into something pointed and fun, with surreal stops along the way for Roberta's pizza, used vinyl or artisanal pickles. Nope. This is all downbeat and somber, with an ending that seems especially pretentious.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 23, 2017

Who needs heroes when you have pseudo-intellectual hipster bullshit?

| Aug 23, 2017

Unfortunately, as much as you might want to be impressed by its kamikaze visual ingenuity, Bushwick is a hollow, ultimately unsatisfying exercise in organized chaos.

| Aug 23, 2017

Directors Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott throw in plenty of explosions, fights and chases to distract us but whenever the action stops, the film begins to seem very silly indeed.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 23, 2017