Middleburg Review: ‘Wolfwalkers’Cartoon Saloon Strikes Gold Again With The Best Animated Film Of The...
Though Disney and Pixar gets a lot of glory and credit when it comes to animation, small Irish studio Cartoon Saloon has been releasing...
Review: ‘Shithouse’Cooper Raiff Delivers An Awkward, And Wholly Believable Look At College Life
College was awesome, right! Frat parties, football games, pranks, that darn cantankerous dean….oh, I’m thinking of pretty much every college based film ever made....
Middleburg Review: ‘Concrete Cowboy’Idris Elba Rides Tall In A Fascinating Urban Western Saddled With...
On some level I think we always knew there were black cowboys, but depictions of them on the big screen have been practically non-existent....
Middleburg Review: ‘Sound Of Metal’Riz Ahmed Delivers Raw, Ferocious Performance As A Drummer Coping...
The title Sound of Metal has a double meaning in Darius Marder's tremendous feature debut. Riz Ahmed continues his streak of emotionally-complex lead performances...
Review: ‘The Opening Act’Jimmy O. Yang Struggles to Perform In Standup Focused Comedy
The Opening Act is an ode to standup. Like some actual odes, at times the plot seems to wander and drag-on. However, its sweetness...
Review: ‘The Trial Of The Chicago 7’Aaron Sorkin's Timely, Rousing Courtroom Drama Is One...
Leave it to Aaron Sorkin to energize what might've been a stiff, paint-by-numbers courtroom drama the way he did three decades ago with A...
Middleburg Review: ‘Blithe Spirit’New Adaptation Of The Classic Play Feels Like An Antique
Blithe Spirit is a classic standard in the theater. The play, written by Noël Coward is a staple on the American and British stages,...
Middleburg Review: ‘Herself’Phyllida Lloyd Returns With A Compassionate Drama About A Woman's Fight To...
In a riveting early scene from Phyllida Lloyd's empathetic, low-key drama Herself, a little girl races into a convenience store with her toybox. Inside...
Middleburg Review: ‘Nomadland’Frances McDormand Delivers A Career Best Performance In Chloe Zhao's Enormous, Powerful...
There are a lot of deep silences in Chloe Zhao's Nomadland. Oftentimes they're intentional, as the lead character Fern (a magnificent Frances McDormand) spends...
Review: ‘Rebecca’Horror And Romance Mingle In Ben Wheatley's Fresh Take On A Haunting Classic
There's no truer adage than "There's a thin line between love and hate", just as romance movies and horror movies make a strangely perfect...