Whatever you think this movie is about probably isn’t exactly right. If, based on the trailer, you think it’s about a monster who takes up residence inside a high school kid’s truck, […]
Film Review: Monster Trucks, Hopelessly Misguided
Steve Prokopy
Film Reviews: Live by Night, Patriots Day, Bye Bye Man
LIVE BY NIGHT I’ll admit, I was confused even by the title of this film, since most of the action takes place in sunny Florida. But as I got deeper into Live […]
Film Review: Train to Busan, Fueled by Pure Adrenaline
One of the last films I watched in 2016 (and it managed to crack my Top 20 of the year in the process) was South Korean horror thrill ride Train to Busan, […]
Film Review – Mifune: The Last Samurai, An Exciting Portrait of One of the World’s Best Actors
One of my favorite documentaries of 2016 was also about one of my personal heroes from way back. The film is director Steven Okazaki’s Mifune: The Last Samurai about the legendary Japanese […]
Film Review: Notes on Blindness, An Eerie Journey From Light to Darkness and Back Again
Much like the memoir that inspired it, Notes on Blindness (from co-directors James Spinney and Peter Middleton) attempts the seemingly impossible, especially for a visual art form: to capture the essence—both actual […]
Film Review: A Monster Calls, An Evocative and Mature Modern Fairy Tale
There are children’s films, and then there are films with children in them that seem more geared toward adults. Spanish-born director J.A. Bayona seems to specialize in the latter, with harrowing and […]
Film Review: Silence, A Beautiful Work of Questioning Faith
Filmmaker Martin Scorsese has spent most of his career presenting us with characters who, in any other movie, might be looked upon as the bad guys. But he gets us to invest […]
Best of 2016: 60 of our Favorite Movies
I’m the damn fool who waits until the year actually ends before rolling out my Best Of… list every year, and that’s because I’m often able to squeeze in about a dozen […]
Film Review: Lion, Well Crafted and Heart-wrenching
The debut feature from director Garth Davis (who helmed most episodes of the excellent series “Top of the Lake”) feels like it was designed in a laboratory for the express purpose of […]
Film Review: Hidden Figures, The Untold Story of Three Black Women Who Brought NASA to Bold New Heights
There are films that simply know how to make an audience happy, and there are those that shamelessly manipulate a crowd into trying to feel something to the point of exhaustion. Thankfully, […]
Film Review: Fences, A Tribute to One of America’s Greatest Playwrights
I’m not sure if it’s the best news or the worst that no one to date has turned a play written by the late August Wilson into a movie for the big […]
Film Review: In Her Name, Largely Quiet and Mostly Satisfying
In the harrowing, true-life story that spans nearly 30 years, In Her Name tells the story of Andre Bamberski (the great French king of angst, Daniel Auteuil), who finds out that his […]
