‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Episode 3 Review: ‘The Heiress’
Finally! An episode of The Mandalorian so good I immediately watched it a second time. I popped so hard for some of the stuff...
Review: ‘One Night In Miami’Four Black Icons Debate Celebrity And Activism In Regina King's...
*NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the Middleburg Film Festival. One Night in Miami hits Amazon Prime on Christmas Day.*
Not everyone...
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: ‘Licorice Pizza’Paul Thomas Anderson's Shaggy, Sweet, Nostalgic Tale of First Love Is The...
Paul Thomas Anderson has proven over the years to be a director with a split personality. I've always liked that about him, obviously enough...
Middleburg Review: ‘The Banshees Of Inisherin’Colin Farrell And Brendan Gleeson Are Friends Turned Bitter...
Feuds are funny things. No, really, in Martin McDonagh's hilariously dark The Banshees of Inisherin, a feud sparks laughter as well as grim reflection in...
Review: ‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’James Cameron Outdoes Himself With A Jaw-Dropping Sequel That's...
Are you ready to return to Pandora? Let's be honest, not a lot of us have thought about it much since Avatar smashed box...
Review: ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’Rian Johnson's Murder Mystery Sequel Is Funnier, Sharper,...
When Rian Johnson released Knives Out in 2019, it was seen as just this starry palette cleanser, following the divisive reaction to The Last Jedi. Little did...
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: ‘Summer Of Soul’Questlove's Directorial Debut Is A Mixtape Tribute To Black Pride...
It's almost unfathomable that something as truly, viscerally alive as the Harlem Cultural Festival could be locked, buried in a basement, for more than...
Review: ‘Gunpowder Milkshake’Karen Gillan And An All Star Cast Of Badass Ladies Go Wild...
When I think of movies about female assassins, it's the films of Luc Besson that immediately spring to mind. Most in the genre owe...