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: ‘News Of The World’Tom Hanks Spreads Hope, Takes On Fake News In Paul...
Paul Greengrass is so effective at depicting real-life tragedies (Bloody Sunday, United 93, Captain Phillips, 22 July) that we forget how good of a...
Review: ‘Herself’Phyllida Lloyd Returns With A Compassionate Drama About A Woman's Fight To Build...
*NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the Middleburg Film Festival. Herself is available now on Amazon Prime Video.*
In a riveting early...
Review: ‘Our Friend’Jason Segel, Casey Affleck, And Dakota Johnson Lead An Affecting Tearjerker About...
What kind of person gives up everything in their life to spend years helping a friend through a difficult time? You might say someone...
Review: ‘The White Tiger’Ramin Bahrani's Economic Satire Is Part Dickens, Part 'Scarface'
The rage of India's permanent underclass fuels Ramin Bahrani's The White Tiger, a sharp, witty crime drama that's like Dickens with a little bit...
Sundance Review: ‘CODA’Emilia Jones Sings Her Heart Out In A Crowd-Pleaser About A Hearing...
CODA is the kind of heartwarming crowdpleaser that Opening Night at Sundance is made for. However, this coming-of-age dramedy about an anxious teen girl...
Sundance Review: ‘Passing’Tessa Thompson And Ruth Negga Straddle The Color Line In Rebecca Hall's...
Having starred in her share of Sundance films already, Rebecca Hall returns to Park City with Passing, a delicately-told, passionate, and complex drama about...
Sundance Review: ‘Eight For Silver’An Original, Bloody Good Take On The Werewolf Genre
Nobody comes to Sundance looking for werewolf movies, but if there's going to be one this is the kind you want. Eight for Silver...
Review: ‘Malcolm & Marie’John David Washington And Zendaya Are As Electifying As They Are...
Words can hit harder than any fist. In Sam Levinson's Malcolm & Marie, a couple, played by Tenet star John David Washington and recent...
Review: ‘Long Weekend’Finn Wittrock And Zoë Chao Charm In A Surprising Sci-Fi Rom-Com That...
Happenstance is a very real thing in writer/director Stephen Basilone's debut film, Long Weekend, and it impacts not only his pair of hopelessly-in-love characters,...