Review: Once Upon a Deadpool Tones Down The Snark and Violence…A Little
I’m sure many of you rolled your eyes so far back in your head they almost got stuck there the first time you heard that the makers of Deadpool 2 […]
Review: Two Strong Performances Carry a Shaky Mary Queen of Scots
There is little doubt in this most recently telling of the life and death of Mary Stuart (here portrayed by Saoirse Ronan), the ambitious Queen of Scotland, eager to build […]
Review: Comic Book Worlds Collide in Creative, Ambitious and Totally Wonderful Into the Spider-Verse
This animated take on the adventures of Spider-Man is so visually and creatively daring, one can’t help but wish that all superhero movies took an equally ambitious path to the […]
Review: Parenting Drama Weightless Lacks Any Heft At All
The aptly titled Weightless is all about an aimless man named Joel (Alessandro Nivola) who meets and must parent his emotionally damaged, 10-year-old son Will (newcomer Eli Haley), who has […]
Review: A Sublimely Entertaining Game of One-Up(Wo)manship in The Favourite
History has rarely been so playfully nasty as it is in the latest from director Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth, The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer). Set in the court […]
Review: South Korea’s Oscar Entry, Burning Is a Lyrical, Mysterious Epic
A great deal of Burning, the latest work from South Korean master Lee Chang-dong (Poetry, Secret Sunshine), concerns what is real and what is wishful thinking/frustration-born fantasy in the mind […]
Review: Smart, Funny and Inventive, Ralph Breaks the Internet is an Animated Sequel Worth the Wait
Something interesting happened on the way to this six-years-in-the-making sequel to the hit animated film Wreck-It Ralph. Ralph Breaks the Internet directors Rich Moore and co-writer Phil Johnston made an […]
Review: At Eternity’s Gate Sends Us Into Vincent van Gogh’s Artistic Mind
Biopics about the painter Vincent van Gogh are so plentiful—including last year’s beautifully animated work Loving Vincent—they are almost their own genre, but I’m not sure an actual, established artist […]
Review: Creed II Is a Sequel with a Lot to Live Up To, and It Mostly Does
Perhaps a lesser film than its predecessor but still quite good, Creed II is more like the Rocky movies we remember. It grasps on more desperately to boxing movie conventions […]
Review: Searching for Ingmar Bergman Delights in Discovering an Icon of Auteur Cinema
Last year, I had a bit of an adventure as an extra on a movie set. And not just any movie set, either. I ended up as an extra in […]
Review: The Dark Marks a Lyrical, Moving Horror Debut for First-Time Filmmaker
This one took me completely by surprise, and I primarily watched it because I was starving for a horror movie in a particularly dry season. Marking the directorial debut of […]
Review: The Coen Brothers Go Western for a Meditation on Mortality in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The only thing more satisfying than Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men, True Grit) making a new Western film is them making six. More to the point, […]