In such indisputable modern classics as Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, and As Good As it Gets, writer/director James L. Brooks profiled the lives of deeply flawed characters with good […]
Over the course of his storied career, composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim had quite a stunning list of successes and very few misses. His greatest fail, however, came in 1981 […]
Even though combing through the archival material could feasibly take a lifetime, making a documentary on a legendary photographer like Steve Schapiro must be the most fun to assemble. Searching […]
Directed by Marshall Curry (an Oscar-winning shorts filmmaker) and narrated by Julianne Moore, The New Yorker at 100 tells the fairly straightforward but no less interesting tale of both the […]
Set in an alternative past in which the world worships a god named Birdman (personified by Richard E. Grant, naturally), who has a mischievous daughter named Kiddo (Safia Oakley-Green) and […]
Although I enjoyed this third installment of the Benoit Blanc/Knives Out mysteries most of all, it’s also the one where Blanc (Daniel Craig) doesn’t show up until about 45 minutes […]
The cinema has been feeding us a steady diet of sad mothers in recent weeks. When I saw Rose Byrne tear up the screen in If I Had Legs I’d […]
I had to recheck my notes to fully grasp that it’s been almost 10 years since the original, wildly successful Zootopia hit theaters. But now, two of its original directors […]
In her new film, Rental Family, the filmmaker known as Hikari traces the isolated life of American actor Phillip (Brendan Fraser, in his first lead role since his Best Leading […]
The timing could not have been more difficult for a film like Rebuilding to premiere at Sundance in January, shortly after the devastating LA wildfires. Writer/director Max Walker-Silverman offers a film set […]
Let’s start here: Wicked For Good is a film that should not exist. Not just because it’s not a very good film, but more broadly speaking, it just shouldn’t be […]
Even though the first The Family Plan came out only two years ago, you’ll be happy to know I remember next to nothing about it. But as its unnecessary sequel, […]