Review: Gender-Centric Horror Flick Men Struggles to Find Depth Beyond Trauma
A film like Men, the latest from writer/director Alex Garland (Annihilation, Ex Machina), is not going to be everyone’s cup…
Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal Adapts The Lost Daughter into a Compelling, Devastating Exploration of Motherhood
Italian author Elena Ferrante (a pseudonym, no one actually knows who Ferrante is) has written 11 novels; her four-book Neopolitan…
Interview: Filmmaker Dominic Cooke on Re-Teaming with Benedict Cumberbatch on The Courier, Patriotism and Making an Emotional Spy Movie
In 2016, for the second season of the groundbreaking British mini-series The Hollow Crown (adaptations of Shakespeare’s royalty-based history plays),…
Review: Humanity Takes Center Stage in British Spy Drama The Courier
When is a spy drama not a spy drama? One answer might be: when the spy in question isn’t really…
Review: Worthy Feminism but Barely a Revolution in Predictable Misbehaviour
Sometimes shifts in history can be predicted, and other times they happen in unexpected places—such as in the 1970 Miss…
Review: Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things Twists Timelines, Stretches Believability and Demands Repeat Viewings
As he seems to excel at doing in one screenplay after another (Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless…
Review: Dolittle Does Very Little with Its New Take on a Children’s Classic
The new year is young, but thank goodness we didn’t have to wait more than a couple of weeks into…
Review: Renée Zellweger is Tormented Perfection As the Icon at the Center of Judy
The most important thing to know about this film—a look at the later period of Judy Garland’s life starring Renée…
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…
