Review: Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard Star in Beautifully Crafted Relationship Drama Memory
This year has been a very good one for the kind of films I’m naturally drawn to, films without much flash or special effects but with real, authentic stories about […]
Review: The Batman Is a New Approach to a Classic Character, Grounded in Detective Work and the Price of Power
If you haven’t figured it out by now, filmmaker Matt Reeves knows what he’s doing. And probably without meaning to, he’s built an admirable career out of breathing new life […]
Review: American Remake The Guilty Is a Tense, Effective Drama with Another Strong Performance from Jake Gyllenhaal
Closely following the one-man plot of its 2018 Danish source material (which went on to become Denmark’s Oscar contender that year), The Guilty finds a way to be both faithful […]
Review: Icy Drama The Lie and Twisted Sci-Fi Black Box Kick Off Amazon Prime and Blumhouse Horror Film Quartet
During the month of October, Amazon Prime Video will release a quartet of films from Blumhouse Television and Amazon Studios. They’re being promoted as horror films, but the first two […]
Review: Despite a Sense of Urgency Mr. Jones is a Bleak Look Back at History
Based on real events, Mr. Jones is a pre-World War II drama that centers on some of the events that led (or perhaps misled) to paving the way for Hitler […]