Although it didn’t make the cut as an Academy Award nominee earlier this week, the documentary feature Midnight Family did make the 15-title Oscar shortlist, and for very good reason. The film […]
The new year is young, but thank goodness we didn’t have to wait more than a couple of weeks into it to hit our first big-budget, military-grade stink-bomb of 2020. Director/co-writer Stephen […]
Despite the fact that Bad Boys for Life (the third Bad Boys movie, for those counting, and the first since 2003) is meant to focus on its lead characters getting older and […]
Now playing in theaters nationwide is the powerful and thought-provoking Just Mercy, a true story based on the book by Harvard Law School-educated civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson (played in the […]
I spent most of director William Eubank’s (The Signal) newest film, Underwater, on the verge of really liking it, waiting for that one original element to push me over the line from […]
It seems odd to be reviewing a documentary about a film critic whose influence is still a big part of the critical landscape, in the same way it was surreal writing about […]
The last time director Miguel Arteta (Cedar Rapids, Chuck & Buck, The Good Girl, Youth in Revolt) and actor Selma Hayek worked together, it resulted in the defiantly under-seen Beatriz at Dinner, […]
Directed by Russian-born documentarian Alla Kovgan (Movement (R)evolution Africa), Cunningham traces dancer and revolutionary choreographer Mercier Philip “Merce” Cunningham’s artistic evolution over three decades of risk and discovery (1944–1972), from his early […]
The reason I separate out documentaries into their own Best of the Year list is not because I feel they should be judged differently than feature films, but because I want to […]
Call me old fashioned, but I’m a firm believer in not posting a Best Of the Year list until the year is actually over. I’m often able to squeeze in about a […]
There’s a moment in the World War I-set film 1917 that will live with me forever. Directed by Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Skyfall, Revolutionary Road) and written by rising talent Krysty Wilson-Cairns, […]
Well, this animated action-adventure featuring the vocal stylings of Will Smith and Tom Holland doesn’t have a particularly memorable or impressive look or story, but it has a great personality. The basic […]
