Review: The 2020 Oscar Live Action Short Showcase Covers A Wide Range Of Harrowing...
The Oscar Short categories are often the purest. Most submissions don’t have much clout or star power attached to them so the films that...
Sundance 2020 Review: ‘Possessor’ Is A Savage Sophomore Effort From Brandon Cronenberg
Tasya Vos. The name sounds like someone from a Bond movie. That's not too far off. Vos (Andrea Riseborough) is a corporate mercenary, but...
Sundance 2020 Review: ‘Downhill’, An Enjoyable Bunny Slopes Version Of ‘Force Majeure’
A snapshot is just a single moment in time. Anybody can stop to grin like a fool for a photograph; it's what happens outside...
Sundance 2020 Review: ‘The Glorias’, Julie Taymor’s Gloria Steinem Biopic Is Uneven But Engaging
Life's road is jagged, never a straight line. That's especially true for renowned feminist activist Gloria Steinem, whose life has always been colored outside...
Sundance 2020 Review: ‘Worth’, Michael Keaton Leads A Thoughtful Drama About 9/11 Victim Compensation
What is the value of human life? Can you place a dollar figure on a person's life? "What is life worth"? That's the question...
Sundance 2020 Review: ‘Black Bear’, Aubrey Plaza And An Actual Black Bear Highlight A...
I don't know if there's been a movie more suited to Sundance's NEXT lineup than Black Bear, a rip-roaring, razor-sharp comedy about toxic relationships...
Sundance 2020 Review: ‘Come Away’ Gives Peter Pan And Alice In Wonderland Grim Origin...
If Brenda Chapman's name is familiar to you, it's probably also what will draw you to Come Away. A longtime animator on Dreamworks' The...
Review: ‘John Henry’, Terry Crews Wields The Sledge Hammer In This Modern Retelling
The next adaptation of the John Henry legend is here with
Terry Crews staring in/as John Henry. This modern take of the tale of
the steel-driving...
Sundance 2020 Review: ‘The Perfect Candidate’, Haifaa al-Mansour Gets Back To Her Hopeful, Empowering...
It's good to see Haifaa al-Mansour get back to basics, so to speak. Her 2012 debut, the uplifting, vitally-important coming of age film Wadjda,...
Review: ‘The Gentlemen’, Another British Gangster Flick From Guy Ritchie? Sign Me Up.
The Gentlemen –
Guy Ritchie’s newest star-studded affair – follows Mickey Pearson (Matthew
McConaughey) who has built a marijuana empire throughout London. A Rhodes scholar
originally from...