Review: ‘Money Plane’Adam "Edge" Copeland Flies The Unfriendly Skies In A Ridiculous Heist Movie...
All aboard, the Money Plane! Imagine, a high stakes casino and underground gambling circuit that caters to the world's most notorious criminals and scoundrels,...
Review: ‘The Mauritanian’A Soulful Tahar Rahim Elevates Kevin Macdonald's Workmanlike Gitmo Political Thriller
Kevin Macdonald's The Mauritanian is the type of serious-minded, conscientious, politically relevant drama that you hope soars, because it's the only way people will...
Sundance Review: ‘Honey Boy’, Shia LaBeouf Gets Serious In Exploring His Troubled Past
Trust me, I understand if the idea of Shia LaBeouf making a movie about his own troubled childhood reeks of some woe-is-me bullshit, an...
Sundance Review: ‘Jockey’Clifton Collins Jr. Rides Into The Winner's Circle In An Affecting, Intimate...
Spend enough time at the horseraces and you begin to see beyond the showmanship of it all. It can be easy to caught up...
Review: ‘The Truth’Catherine Deneuve Is A Ferocious Screen Icon In Hirokazu Koreeda's Latest Exploration...
It's long known to readers of this site that Hirokazu Koreeda is my favorite director working today. The Japanese filmmaker, whose incisive dramas such...
Review: ‘The United States Vs. Billie Holiday’Andra Day Soars, But Lee Daniels' Film Is...
Lee Daniels' The United States vs. Billie Holiday fits into a surge of films about Black activism in the pursuit of equal rights. While...
Review: ‘The Miseducation Of Cameron Post’, Gay Conversion Drama Leaves A Lot Unsaid
Maybe it's in response to the especially hostile political environment, but this is proving a fertile time in the indie circuit for gay teen...
Review: ‘Greenland’Gerard Butler's Latest Disaster Thriller Benefits From Small-Scale Focus
While Greenland may look like the typical "Gerard Butler saves the world from disaster" movie, it's definitely a cut above. Directed by Ric Roman...
Review: ‘Nomadland’Frances McDormand Delivers A Career Best Performance In Chloe Zhao's Enormous, Powerful Road...
*NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the Middleburg Film Festival.*
There are a lot of deep silences in Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland. Oftentimes they’re...
Sundance Review: ‘Prisoners Of The Ghostland’Nicolas Cage And Sion Sono's Bonkers Genre Mashup Gets...
How is it that Nicolas Cage, that wild and crazy guy, hasn't teamed up with Japanese lunatic auteur Sion Sono before? Perhaps it was...