Review: ‘Mafia Mamma’Toni Collette Becomes A Mob Don In Catherine Hardwicke's Messy Action Comedy
Toni Collette is stepping into the shoes of Tony Soprano and Michael Corleone’s shoes in Catherine Hardwicke’s action comedy Mafia Mamma. Playing an insecure...
Middleburg Review: ‘Parallel Mothers’Penélope Cruz Leads Pedro Almodóvar's Disjointed 23rd Film
Renowned Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóva is deconstructing legacy and motherhood in his latest stylized melodrama Parallel Mothers. His seven-time collaborator Penélope Cruz and relative...
Reviews: ‘Family Squares’Too Many Characters Hurt This Margo Martindale, Judy Greer-Led Zoom Comedy
Many tried to make a film over the course of the pandemic. Some efforts have been more successful than others (see Ride the Eagle...
Review: ‘Poor Things’Emma Stone Grows Up In Yorgos Lanthimos' Surreal Feminist Fairy Tale
Poor Things is being compared to Frankenstein a lot. While its novel of the same name (written by Alasdair Gray) is meant to be...
Review: ‘Where The Crawdads Sing’Daisy Edgar-Jones Leads A Problematic Southern Morality Tale 12 Years...
Daisy Edgar-Jones is having quite the year. She has been eaten in Fresh and murdered at the hands of Mormons in Under the Banner...
Review: ‘The Umbrella Academy’ Season 2The Wild Superhero Show Faces the Growing Pains of...
Before we dive in today, I’m going to tell you a bit about how the film critic thing works. When we get an assignment...
Review:’Young Hearts’First Love Is Imperfectly Awkward In The Duplass Produced Dramedy
The new coming-of-age romance Young Hearts imperfectly captures what first love feels like. Touching, funny, and painfully realistic, the film brings the 21st century...
Review: ‘Paris, 13th District’Noémie Merlant Stars In Jacques Audiard's Look Into The Personal Lives...
In Paris, 13th District, four attractive young people’s lives intersect as they try to navigate love and their careers while living in the same...
Review: ’80 For Brady’Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, And Sally Field Team Up...
Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Sally Field, and Rita Moreno are teaming up to pay a cinematic tribute to the legacy of Tom Brady. Arguably...
Middleburg Review: ‘Priscilla’Sofia Coppola's Sleek Yet Grounded Take On Priscilla Presley's Life Doesn't Sing...
Sofia Coppola has made a career out of cinematically capturing young women on the precipice of adulthood. We saw it in The Virgin Suicides,...