Review: A Stacked Cast Elevates Family Squares Above Its Zoom-Filmed Family Meetings
Another example of pure pandemic cinema is this week’s release of Family Squares, a lightweight but often quite funny work…
Review: The High Note Lacks Harmony in Disjointed, Foolish Plotlines
One of the things I admired about director Nisha Ganatra’s previous film, Late Night, was that some of its insights…
Review: Almost Love is a Clunky, Shallow Exploration of All Kinds of Relationships
Almost Love, the feature directorial debut from actor-turned-filmmaker Mike Doyle is an often playful but sometimes overly serious look at…
Review: In Its American Remake, Downhill Loses Some of the Swedish Subtleties
When the critically praised 2014 Swedish film Force Majeure (directed by Ruben Östlund) debuted, it was celebrated as a critical…
Review: Self-Involved Where’d You Go, Bernadette Squanders a Stacked Cast
There are moments in this adaptation of Maria Semple’s much-loved, quite successful novel Where’d You Go, Bernadette that I absolutely…
