TIFF 2021 Review: ‘The Hill Where Lionesses Roar’Luàna Bajrami‘s Vivid Coming-Of-Age Crime Drama Cherishes...
A small town, restless teens, and a yearning for something greater. This logline has been the heart of so many American coming-of-age stories we...
Review: ‘Thirteen Lives’Ron Howard's Most Compelling Film In Years Refuses To Be Sunk By...
It feels good to have Ron Howard once again making feel-good movies. Yes, Thirteen Lives is about the 2018 rescue of twelve young soccer players and...
Review: ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone Lead Scorsese's Masterful Crime Epic...
Culture stands at the heart of Martin Scorsese's sweeping, devastating crime epic Killers of the Flower moon. The loss one of one's noble culture, and...
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...
‘Snowpiercer’ Season 1 Review: Rebellion Fuels A Much-Needed Course Correction
A few weeks ago I booked passage on the first episode of TNT's long-troubled, oft-delayed Snowpiercer. Thinking it would be a disaster straight out...
Middleburg Review: ‘Belfast’Kenneth Branagh's Joyous, Modest Slice-Of-Life Drama Will Leave You Buzzing
This has been another year of deeply personal awards season dramas at Middleburg. A couple of years removed from Roma, this year we've got Paolo...
Review: ‘Cut Throat City’RZA Crafts A Rewarding, Cumbersome Big Easy Gangster Epic
The Wizard of Oz plays an unexpectedly large role in RZA's New Orleans crime epic, Cut Throat City. The second film in days set...
Review: ‘The Zone Of Interest’Jonathan Glazer Returns With A Chilling But Hollow Holocaust Family...
Has there ever been a Holocaust movie where a character makes an impassioned plea to stay in Auschwitz, rather than to escape such a...
Review: ‘Your Place Or Mine’Reese Witherspoon And Ashton Kutcher Swap Lives In Netflix's Likable...
A lot was made of Jennifer Lopez's return to romantic comedies last year with Marry Me and recently with Shotgun Wedding. But that ignores the fact that...
Review: ‘The Contractor’Chris Pine And Ben Foster Reunite For A Solid Action Flick About...
Swedish filmmaker Tarik Saleh's English-language debut, The Contractor, resembles the brawny action flicks that would have been popular in theaters just a few years ago....