Middleburg Review: ‘Hamnet’Life Meets Art In Chloé Zhao's Meaningful Mediation On Grief, Love, And...
Hamnet is not a story about Shakespeare. Sure, Paul Mescal plays the young writer before he found fame in the London theater circuit as...
Middleburg Review: ‘Rental Family’Brendan Fraser Is A Loved One For Hire In Hikari's Sensitive,...
It's amazed me that so many people have never heard of the Japanese phenomenon of rental family services. Werner Herzog made an entire movie...
Middleburg Review: ‘Nuremberg’Russell Crowe Commands The Screen As Hermann Göring In James Vanderbilt's Gripping...
Undoubtedly, ten or fifteen years ago, James Vanderbilt's Nuremberg would be seen as a sure-fire Best Picture conteder. Sadly, they just don't make stately, handsome period...
Middleburg Review: ‘Eternity’Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller, And Callum Turner Spice Up The Afterlife In...
Movies are always a reflection of our times, and maybe it's the chaos of the moment but audiences seem to be wanting light-hearted star-driven...
Middleburg Review: ‘The Mastermind’Josh O'Connor Is The Worst Art Thief Ever In Kelly Reichardt's...
Leave it to realist filmmaker Kelly Reichardt to strip all of the style and panache from an American heist movie. It shouldn't be surprising....
Middleburg Review: ‘Hedda’Tessa Thompson And Nina Hoss Burn Hot In Nia DaCosta's Intoxicating Rework...
When director Nia DaCosta and star Tessa Thompson get together, as they have multiple times beginning with 2018's underrated Little Woods, expect reinvention, reimagining, an...
Middleburg Review: ‘Jay Kelly’George Clooney Charms As An Aging Movie Star In Noah Baumbach's...
"Do you know how hard it is to play yourself"? George Clooney's affable, classy, Hollywood actor Jay Kelly asks, and is asked, frequently in...
Review: ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’Rose Byrne Is A Parent In Crisis...
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You pulverizes you with stress for 113 minutes and doesn’t let up until the credits roll. It’s an ironic...
Review: ‘Good Fortune’Aziz Ansari, Keanu Reeves, And Seth Rogen Trade Lives And Bank Accounts...
It’s been a long time coming for Aziz Ansari’s directorial debut, the heavenly body swapping comedy Good Fortune. His previous attempt behind the camera fell...
Review: ‘After The Hunt’Luca Guadagnino's Lifeless Accusation Drama Has Nothing To Say
Perhaps the most interesting thing about Luca Guadagnino's jumbled, wildly unfocused accusation drama After the Hunt is that it's shot on the campus of Yale University....