2025 in Review: Best Documentary Films of the Year
As I do every year, I separate documentaries into their own Best of the Year list, not because I feel they should be judged any differently than narrative films, but […]
Review: Kate Winslet Makes Her Directorial Debut with Goodbye June, a Heartfelt if Sometimes Clunky Family Holiday Drama
With a cast like this, how can you resist taking a peak at this Christmastime film that’s also a dying-elderly-mother piece? Featuring four of the most reliable actors of their […]
Review: Cover-Up Is a Compelling New Documentary About History-Making Investigative Journalism
According to the legend established in this film, director Laura Poitras (an Oscar winner for Citizenfour and All the Beauty and the Bloodshed) asked Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh […]
Review: Paul Rudd and Jack Black Are Two Friends Who Decide to Remake a Cult Favorite in a New Take on Anaconda
It’s hard not to watch this new take on Anaconda and not think of Tropic Thunder, since both are about a group of filmmakers (one sanctioned by a studio, the […]
Review: Timothée Chalamet Delivers a Career Best Performance in Josh Safdie’s Frenetic, Captivating Marty Supreme
As Americans, most of us are suckers for stories about underdogs or comebacks or rising up from great adversity to triumph in the end, and certainly, the debut solo film […]
Review: Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman Shine in Milwaukee-Set Biopic Song Sung Blue, a Tribute to Love, Dreams and Neil Diamond
It’s no secret that Hugh Jackman is a, forgive me, jack of all trades. The man can do it all, from super-hero to Broadway star. He’s a man’s man who’s […]
Review: Park Chan-wook Offers Satire and Dark Humor in No Other Choice, as One Man’s Job Hunt Turns Desperate
It’s a shame that more American audiences don’t seek out international cinema when it makes its way to US movie theaters; it was always a struggle for films with subtitles […]
Interview: Filmmaker Craig Brewer Chats Neil Diamond, Tribute Bands and Midwestern Vibes in Song Sung Blue
When I first met Craig Brewer, it was after a very early screening of his third feature film, 2006’s Black Snake Moan (maybe three months before its official release date). […]
Review: Paul Feig Directs The Housemaid, a Twisting Tale of Two Women and Their Very Different Experiences in the Same House
Based on the best-selling 2022 book by Freida McFadden and adapted by Rebecca Sonnenshine, The Housemaid is something of a wild-ride thriller about Millie (Sydney Sweeney), a young woman with […]
Review: James Cameron Returns with Avatar: Fire and Ash, but Revisiting the Na’vi Feels More Like Well-Worn Sci-Fi Territory
For reasons that are beyond my comprehension, James Cameron’s Avatar films continue to land with mass, global audiences in an unexpected way. To be clear, I’m not someone who dislikes […]
Review: Starring a Captivating Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent Offers Political Thrills with a Humanizing (and Sometimes Fantastical) Touch
Though his name might not be familiar to most, my ears always perk up when I hear Wagner Moura is in something new. He’s been acting since the late ’90s, […]
Review: Filmmaker Bradley Cooper Gets Intimate with Is This Thing On? About Stand-Up Comedy and a Marriage at a Crossroads
With a successful acting career under his belt, including two Oscar nominations, Bradley Cooper set his sights on filmmaking—and not in a small way. Cooper launched out of the gate […]