Review: ‘Radium Girls’Joey King And Abby Quinn Are Activists In Respectable Drama About A...
Filmmaker Lydia Dean Pilcher has found her niche this year exploring little-known chapters in female history. Her film A Call to Spy took a...
Review: ‘Bad Hair’ Justin Simien’s Killer Weave Horror Is A Tangled Treat
*NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the Sundance Film Festival. Bad Hair opens on Hulu on October 23rd.*
When a black woman...
Review: ‘Synchronic’Time-Travel Snoozer Sends Anthony Mackie And Jamie Dornan On A Bad Trip
Synchronic starts out going one way, like the arthouse version of Scorsese's Bringing Out the Dead, but turns out to be something else entirely...
Review: ‘The Witches’Anne Hathaway Casts A Campy Spell But Can't Rescue Robert Zemeckis' Dull...
Roald Dahl adaptations are always tricky to pull off, because the author's work often teeters between childish flights of fancy and the stuff of...
Review: ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’Sacha Baron Cohen's Funny, Reheated Sequel Is A Welcome Hit On...
For more than two decades Sacha Baron Cohen has been pushing the boundaries of good taste as a variety of fake journalist characters, pulling...
Middleburg Review: ‘Minari’Steven Yeun Leads The Way In Lee Isaac Chung's Poignant, Beautiful Immigrant...
Minari. The word is foreign to most of here in America but in Korea it's an herb, a particularly rugged one that can assimilate...
Middleburg Review: ‘One Night In Miami’Four Black Icons Debate Celebrity And Activism In Regina...
Not everyone could make a movie like One Night in Miami, at least not in the way it needs to be done. Regina King,...
Middleburg Review: ‘Concrete Cowboy’Idris Elba Rides Tall In A Fascinating Urban Western Saddled With...
On some level I think we always knew there were black cowboys, but depictions of them on the big screen have been practically non-existent....
Middleburg Review: ‘Sound Of Metal’Riz Ahmed Delivers Raw, Ferocious Performance As A Drummer Coping...
The title Sound of Metal has a double meaning in Darius Marder's tremendous feature debut. Riz Ahmed continues his streak of emotionally-complex lead performances...
Review: ‘The Trial Of The Chicago 7’Aaron Sorkin's Timely, Rousing Courtroom Drama Is One...
Leave it to Aaron Sorkin to energize what might've been a stiff, paint-by-numbers courtroom drama the way he did three decades ago with A...