While I’ve never been a fan of weird for weirdness’s sake, I do tend to enjoy it when there’s a touch of mischief—or even a dark streak—running through it. In director Lorcan […]
Review: A Dystopian Trip to Adulthood in Weirdly Unnerving Vivarium
Review: A Story of Resilience, Resistance Misses the Humanity of Actual Events
Depending on how you look at it, this is either a very good or very bad week to be Jesse Eisenberg. He has not one, but two new movies being released into […]
Review: Uncorked Pairs Well With a Nice Red and a Movie Night In
Every week, all kinds of new content lands on Netflix without much fanfare. Like a tree falling in the woods, if there isn’t a pandemic to keep us all home, does anyone […]
Review: In Daunting Times, Netflix’s Crip Camp Inspires and Uplifts
If you know nothing at all about it, a film with the title Crip Camp might not immediately jump to the top of your Netflix queue. Rest assured, it should. An official selection […]
Review: A Stark Statement on Humanity in Unexpectedly Dark Bacurau
As the film industry, like the rest of us, grapples with how to move forward in the midst of a global pandemic, studios that had plans to release new films to now-closed […]
Review: A Sense of Place, Tension and Mystery in Female-Driven Blow The Man Down
So much of what makes the debut feature from writing/directing team Bridget Savage Cole (The Distance Between the Apple and the Tree) and Danielle Krudy is its sense of place. There is […]
Review: In Swallow, A Brutal Addiction Channels Sympathies, Gets Weird
Believe it or not, there is a mini-genre of independent films that center around women eating…weird shit. As riveting as it is disturbing, 2016’s Raw centers on sisters at a veterinary school who […]
Review: Pete Davidson Channels Star Potential in Big Time Adolescence
[Editors Note: Starting this week, Third Coast’s film coverage will shift to streaming options in order to continue to deliver critical takes on the latest films until cinemas re-open. We’ll indicate in […]
Review: Genre-bending Extra Ordinary Spooks, Jokes and Thoroughly Entertains
Heading to the movie theater might not be at the top of your list of Things To Do This Weekend, and it’s understandable if so. If, however, you’re more of the “measured-but-cautious” […]
Review: ‘Deplorables’ As Target Practice in Once Delayed, Still Timely The Hunt
Quite often, when producer Jason Blum presents something controversially topical, we get The Purge franchise. But every once in a while, we also get Get Out. Blum may not have anything to […]
Siskel’s CEUFF Week 2: European Films (Mostly) Worth Braving the Crowds For
With the ever-developing news around COVID-19, institutions like the Siskel Film Center are diligently implementing the recommendations and precautions necessary to keep their audiences safe while not compromising programming that’s been months […]
Review: First Cow Explores Male Friendship and American Entrepreneurship
Some are better than others, but I don’t think director Kelly Reichardt has made a bad movie. From her debut with the recently restored and reissued River of Grass, Old Joy, and […]
