Review: ‘Herself’Phyllida Lloyd Returns With A Compassionate Drama About A Woman's Fight To Build...
*NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the Middleburg Film Festival. Herself is available now on Amazon Prime Video.*
In a riveting early...
Review: ‘American Skin’Nate Parker Puts The Police On Trial In His Provocative, Unfocused, And...
Let's get one thing out of the way right now. American Skin, the first movie from writer/director/star Nate Parker since his Birth of a...
‘Sylvie’s Love’ Interviews: Tessa Thompson, Nnamdi Asomugha, And Eugene Ashe On Crafting A Classic...
Sylvie's Love, out right now on Amazon Prime, is something that is a rare breed in Hollywood. A classic romance featuring two African-American leads,...
Review: ‘Outside The Wire’Anthony Mackie Is An Advanced Android Soldier In An Efficient Sci-Fi...
Netflix's latest "quick grab" action flick Outside the Wire is a hodge-podge of various military scare-tactic films. You've got Terminator and the fear of...
‘WandaVision’ Review: Marvel Takes A Big Gamble Mixing Superheroes With Classic TV Sitcoms
While we shouldn't expect the Marvel Cinematic Universe to walk in lock-step with Marvel Comics, there's one universal truth when it comes to Wanda...
Review: ‘The Marksman’Liam Neeson Defends An Immigrant Boy In An Eastwood-esque Action Flick
The Marksman, Liam Neeson's latest geriatric action thriller, could just as easily be imagined as a star vehicle for Clint Eastwood. The film is...
Review: ‘Locked Down’Anne Hathaway And Chiwetel Ejiofor Star In A Pandemic Heist Film As...
There are heist movies, and then there are badly-paced, chatty relationship movies disguised as heist movies. Doug Liman's unreasonably lame Locked Down is definitely...
Review: ‘Our Friend’Jason Segel, Casey Affleck, And Dakota Johnson Lead An Affecting Tearjerker About...
What kind of person gives up everything in their life to spend years helping a friend through a difficult time? You might say someone...
Review: ‘The White Tiger’Ramin Bahrani's Economic Satire Is Part Dickens, Part 'Scarface'
The rage of India's permanent underclass fuels Ramin Bahrani's The White Tiger, a sharp, witty crime drama that's like Dickens with a little bit...
Review: ‘Brothers By Blood’Matthias Schoenaerts And Joel Kinnaman Add Towering Presence To A Bland...
I really should know better given the track record of picking movies to be extremely excited for. Brothers by Blood, a small-scale Philadelphia crime...