Review: Sharper Uses a Flexible Storytelling Structure and Strong Cast to Create a Gripping Neo-Noir
In a slight twist in the recent trend in movies to stick it to the rich, first-time director Benjamin Caron’s…
Dispatch: Day One at an All Virtual (Again) Sundance Film Festival
With the Omicron variant of COVID-19 raging across the country, the organizers at this year’s Sundance Film Festival made the…
Review: Much Is Lost in Film Adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen, Including Essential Elements Like Context, Empathy
When it premiered on Broadway in late 2016, Dear Evan Hansen, an original new musical with a book by Steven Levenson…
Review: Flatly Animated and Lacking Any Real Fun, Both Parents and Kids Deserve Better Animated Fare Than Spirit Untamed
From the floundering DreamWorks Animation comes Spirit Untamed, a “sequel” to the 2002 film Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (which…
Review: After the Wedding Remake is No Match for Oscar-Nominated Original
A film like After the Wedding offers so much promise. An English-language remake of the 2007 Academy Award nominee of the…
Review: A Moving Meditation on Death in Diane
Just a few weeks after Sebastian Lelio gifted us with an English-language remake of Gloria Bell, about a woman in her…
Review: Julianne Moore is Perfect Imperfection in Gloria Bell
As filmmaking challenges go, a movie with the resplendent Julianne Moore at its center, where the camera is as enamored…
