Sometimes, it just comes down to laughs. A few years back, director Michael Dowse made one of the great sports comedies of the last 10 years, Goon, and he proved that he […]
Review: Forced and Phony, Stuber Isn’t Worth the Fare
Review: An American Literary Treasure Tells Her Story in Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Except for a brief period in my pre-teens when I thought it wasn’t “cool,” I’ve always been an avid reader. I was practically raised in the library, and to this day, I’m […]
Review: A Woman’s Worldview Takes Center Stage in Ophelia
Sometimes a familiar story needs a fresh twist, even if that story is arguably one of the most famous in all of William Shakespeare’s lexicon, Hamlet. Directed by Claire McCarthy and adapted […]
Review: Foreign Tension, Scary Familiarity in Sun-Drenched Midsommar
Back in January 2018, I attended the world premiere of writer-director Ari Aster’s debut feature Hereditary at the Sundance Film Festival, and I predicted that it was an early candidate for the […]
Review: Country Music Hopeful Hits All the Right Notes in Wild Rose
In a genre that seems to be quite of the moment, count Wild Rose as the latest entry into films about female musicians searching for themselves, stardom, love…and sometimes all of the […]
Review: Beatles-centric Yesterday Is Ever So Slightly Off Key
The hardest reviews to write are the ones for greatly anticipated movies that ultimately fall short of expectations. Such is the case with Yesterday, a film that, based on its premise and […]
Review: A Human Experiment at Sea in The Raft
There are two truly fascinating, wildly different documentaries about unique sailing trips being released right on top of each other that are both worth your time. One is Maiden, about the first […]
Review: Annabelle Comes Home Lives Squarely, Scarily in the Conjuring Universe
The one thing that becomes abundantly clear after watching this third entry in the Annabelle series (which is a part of the so-called Conjuring universe) is that the closer these spinoff films […]
Review: Void Bastards Is Full of Weirdness and Charm
Void Bastards is a strange game: It’s chock full of charm, but also crammed with weirdness. It’s one of those games that takes the ideas from multiple games and mashes them […]
Review: In the Aisles Explores Everyday Life, Romance on the Stock Room Floor
Fans of foreign films will recognize the two lead actors in Thomas Stuber’s In the Aisles, a sweet fable of love blossoming in the break room of a Costco-like warehouse superstore. The infatuated […]
Review: Sienna Miller Shines in Family Drama American Woman
Sienna Miller is one of the finest actors working today, but you rarely get a chance to really experience that because of the roles she’s saddled with. With strong supporting roles in […]
Review: Part Reboot, Part Sequel, Men In Black: International Doesn’t Add Anything to the Franchise
The Men In Black movies don’t make up a particularly good franchise. The first film from 1997 was a terrific original idea about the hide-in-plain-sight tactics of a secret organization that monitors […]
