Sundance Review: ‘Jockey’Clifton Collins Jr. Rides Into The Winner's Circle In An Affecting, Intimate...
Spend enough time at the horseraces and you begin to see beyond the showmanship of it all. It can be easy to caught up...
Review: ‘Judas And The Black Messiah’Lakeith Stanfield And Daniel Kaluuya Lead A Powerful Look...
We've seen quite a few movies lately on COINTELPRO, such as the recent Kristen Stewart-led Seberg, which chronicle the FBI's attempts to smear, disrupt,...
Sundance Review: ‘The World To Come’Katherine Waterston And Vanessa Kirby Share An Impassioned Romance...
The second recent lesbian love story set in the 19th-century, Mona Fastvold's rapturous The World to Come has only that in common with the...
Review: ‘Little Fish’Olivia Cooke And Jack O'Connell Try To Find Their Own Eternal Sunshine...
Little Fish, the thought-provoking, poetic sci-fi love story from director Chad Hartigan, is a pandemic movie that isn't about the pandemic. Thank goodness. There...
Review: ‘To All The Boys: Always And Forever’Lara Jean And Peter Face An Uncertain...
Oh, Peter. You've finally found a rival for Lara Jean's heart that you can't simply out-smile or out-charm into defeat. Netflix's adaptations of Jenny...
Review: ‘I Care A Lot’Rosamund Pike And Peter Dinklage Go Toe-to-Toe In Superbly Evil...
*NOTE: This is a reprint of Jake's review from last year's Toronto International Film Festival.*
You always hear about people “abusing the system.” Learning the...
Review: ‘Nomadland’Frances McDormand Delivers A Career Best Performance In Chloe Zhao's Enormous, Powerful Road...
*NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the Middleburg Film Festival.*
There are a lot of deep silences in Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland. Oftentimes they’re...
Review: ‘Wrong Turn’Mike P. Nelson Delivers a Terrifyingly Gory Remake That Hits Its Marks
It really seems like every day there is something else that’s meant to make me feel old. Until now, reboots and remakes were a...
Review: ‘Raya And The Last Dragon’Disney Delivers Sword-Swinging, High-Flying Action With Southeast Asian Flair
It's interesting to me that Disney's Asian-inspired princesses are also in the films that are the most action-heavy. It could just be cultural, as...
Review: ‘Keep An Eye Out’Quentin Dupieux's Fun French Murder Mystery Is Driven By Absurdity...
Louis Fugain (Gregoire Ludig) was going about his life when he stumbled across a body in Keep An Eye Out. It started out as...