Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Adventurous Filmmaker Taika Waititi Misses the Mark in Uninspired Sports Underdog Story Next Goal Wins

Filmmaker Taika Waititi has taken some wild swings in his career, from his vampire-centric faux documentary What We Do in the Shadows and the charming Hunt for the Wilderpeople to […]

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Review: Centered by a Riveting Performance, Shirley Plays Like an Experiment in Human Interactions

Shirley

Elisabeth Moss is the rare actress who has made remarkable work in both television (“Mad Men,” “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “Top of the Lake”) and film (Her Smell, Us, The Invisible […]

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Review: Elisabeth Moss Fights to Be Believed in Smart, Surprising The Invisible Man

Invisible Man

Ever since I saw this new version of The Invisible Man, I keep erroneously referring to it as The Invisible Woman, but the mistake is understandable. Aside from the film’s […]

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Review: Elisabeth Moss at the Center of a Tornado in Her Smell

Her Smell

Of the recent trend in female-driven fictional music-centric movies, writer/director Alex Ross Perry’s Her Smell, starring Elisabeth Moss as the lead singer of a band that made it big in […]

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Review: Jordan Peele’s Us Revels in an Ambiguity with Bite

Us

There’s a line spoken early in Us, the sophomore feature from writer/director Jordan Peele (Get Out) that is important but doesn’t give anything away about the film’s true nature. It’s […]

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Review: The Seagull Lacks Passion, Despite a Strong Cast

The first of two new films starring Saoirse Ronan coming out this month (On Chesil Beach arrives next week in Chicago), this adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull doesn’t add […]

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