Review: Megachurch Satire The Righteous Gemstones Tops Itself Again With a Stellar Third Season
Writer and director Danny McBride is obsessed with the trappings of narcissism. Whether it be teaching gym, vying for power…
Review: Lacking Momentum and Charisma, Rom-Com Your Place or Mine Squanders the Best of the Genre
As has been proven time and time again, making a contemporary rom-com that both entertains and endears itself onto its…
Review: A Modern Western, Cowboys Puts Family Dynamics to the Test
Set in small-town Montana, Cowboys, the latest from writer/director Anna Kerrigan (Five Days Gone), concerns a family in crisis largely…
Review: Alan Ball Explores 1970s Family Dynamics in Layered, Emotional Uncle Frank
One of two films released this week about coming out to one’s family (the other being Hulu’s holiday rom-com Happiest Season), Uncle…
Review: Connection, Kinship at the Heart of Achingly Moving Lean on Pete
I walked into the latest from director Andrew Haigh (Weekend, 45 Years) knowing absolutely nothing about it beyond the title,…
