After tackling such subjects as prisoner abuse involving U.S. soldiers and detainees in Ghosts of Abu Ghraib; the life of grandmother Ethel Kennedy in Ethel; and the last weeks of America’s involvement in the […]
I have an affection and weakness for music documentaries, especially films about musicians or musical movements that I know little about. In a way, the film’s job becomes to convince me that […]
A better and more compelling movie than you might think, Only the Brave tells the story of the real-life Granite Mountain Hotshots, a specially trained team of Arizona firefighters who fought some […]
Not in the least bit shocking, the internet has completely oversold just how strange and/or awful the latest work from director Tomas Alfredson (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Let the Right One In) […]
The 53rd Chicago International Film Festival is happening now (through October 26), and the Third Coast Review film team got a chance to screen many of the film selections in advance. Here, […]
Writer-director Sean Baker has made three films in a row (all told, he’s made six) that have taken an almost hypnotic approach to reality-based fiction. In 2012’s Starlet, Baker and constant co-writer […]
The 53rd Chicago International Film Festival is happening now (through October 26), and the Third Coast Review film team got a chance to screen many of the film selections in advance. Here’s […]
You often hear the claim that a film is “unlike anything you’ve seen before,” but in the case of the animated work Loving Vincent, there’s no other way to describe it. Taking […]
Already streaming on Netflix and now getting a limited theatrical run (in Chicago, at the Landmark Century Center Cinema) The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) is the latest from writer-director Noah Baumbach […]
What will undoubtedly be one of my favorite films of 2017, writer-director Sean Baker’s The Florida Project follows his previous two exercises in brash (meant in the best possible way) neo-realism, after […]
In my decades of being a Jackie Chan enthusiast, I never thought I’d see him in an action-enhanced drama fighting against a terrorist group known as “The Authentic IRA.” But you know […]
Feel free to put your claims of opportunism aside; there’s no way the makers of the intriguing biopic Professor Marston and the Wonder Women could have possibly known that Patty Jenkins’ telling […]
