Review: ‘The Mean One’This Holiday Horror Parody Is A Grinch Worthy Of A Lump...
If you’re anything like me you have an annual tradition involving a certain green, Christmas-hating creature and if you’re anything like me you probably...
Review: ‘One Fine Morning’Léa Seydoux Shines Bright In Mia Hansen-Løve's Poignant Drama About A...
It's easy to appreciate Léa Seydoux for her glamorous roles, especially in the James Bond franchise, but it's the little French dramas like One Fine...
Review: ‘The Whale’Brendan Fraser Finds A Compelling Performance In Darren Aronofsky's Troubling Depiction Of...
NOTE: This review was originally part of our 2022 Middleburg Film Festival coverage.
Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale constantly contradicts itself. The unrelenting character study of...
Review: ‘Something From Tiffany’s’Zoey Deutch And Kendrick Sampson’s Chemistry Saves Amazon’s Predictable Holiday Rom-Com
It’s that time of year. Where we get bombarded with feel-good rom-com at Christmastime films. After all, the holiday season is about presents, family,...
Review: ‘Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio’A Masterful Work Of Art That Gives The Classic Story...
Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio has been a long time coming. Del Toro has been trying to make this movie for fifteen years, and thank...
Review: ‘Empire Of Light’Olivia Colman And Micheal Ward Dazzle In Sam Mendes' Beautiful Ode...
Over the last few years, Sam Mendes has directed nothing but gigantic blockbusters; 007 films Skyfall and Spectre, followed by the single-shot war film 1917. As good-to-great as...
Review: ‘Hunt’'Squid Game' Star Lee Jung-jae’s Directorial Debut Is A Twisting Spy Thriller
South Korea in the early to mid 80s was a turbulent time as captured in Hunt. The constant threat from North Korea is always...
Review: ‘Spoiler Alert’Despite The Gimmicks, Jim Parsons And Ben Aldridge Proudly Lead Bittersweet Adaptation...
Cinematic love stories don’t always feel rooted in reality. Even those based on real-life often can’t pull the emotional weight they need to feel...
Review: ‘The Eternal Daughter’Tilda Swinton Gives An Incredible Dual Performance In Joanna Hogg's Haunting...
Old friends Tilda Swinton and director Joanna Hogg work together frequently, as they did recently in The Souvenir and The Souvenir Part II, dramas with a bit...
Review: ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’Emma Corrin And Jack O'Connell Give In To Passion, But Within...
The pinnacle of so-hot-it's-been-banned literary classics definitively goes to D.H. Lawrence's 1928 novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover. Suppressed for much of the 20th-century, it didn't...