Review: ‘A Hero’No Good Deed Goes Unpunished In Asghar Farhadi's Masterful Moral Drama
What does it mean to be a good person? Is it simply doing a good deed? Or does it go much deeper than that?...
Sundance Review: ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’Cooper Raiff And Dakota Johnson Get The Party Jumpin'...
There's a good chance people will be turned off by the gentle, nakedly earnest comedies by Cooper Raiff. A breakout award-winner at SXSW for...
Review: ‘TÁR’Cate Blanchett Puts On A Master Class In Todd Field's Triumphant Return Film
After sixteen years away, making his first film since 2006's Little Children, Todd Field is open to taking some big chances. His masterful TÁR is nothing...
Sundance Review: ‘Rye Lane’Vivian Oparah And David Jonsson Dazzle In Raine Allen-Miller's Refreshingly Upbeat,...
Rye Lane is the kind of infectious, quietly aspirational film that I wished there were more of at Sundance. For Park City vets, an easy...
‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Ep. 6 Review: “The Tragedy”
With an episode titled "The Tragedy", we knew shit was definitely about to hit the fan. I'm not sure we were prepared for this,...
Middleburg Review: ‘The Power Of The Dog’Benedict Cumberbatch Lives The Cowboy Way In Jane...
The Western genre has survived the modern era of filmmaking through constant deconstruction, even as recently in Clint Eastwood's Cry Macho. But few have...
Review: ‘Athena’Romain Gavras' Uncompromising, Bold Protest Drama Will Leave You Breathless
What is it about the French that they make the best, most visceral films about protest, unrest, and social justice? It's a tradtion that...
Review: ‘Judas And The Black Messiah’Lakeith Stanfield And Daniel Kaluuya Lead A Powerful Look...
We've seen quite a few movies lately on COINTELPRO, such as the recent Kristen Stewart-led Seberg, which chronicle the FBI's attempts to smear, disrupt,...
Review: ‘The Suicide Squad’It's James Gunn To The Max In The Best And Bloodiest...
I probably enjoyed David Ayer's Suicide Squad more than most, even with the uncertain tone and obvious studio interference. There remained something uniquely badass...
Review: ‘The Mitchells Vs. The Machines’A Peculiar, Kinetic, And Hilarious Apocalyptic Road Trip Comedy
On the surface, The Mitchells vs. The Machines takes on a lot of topics we've seen done to death. The dysfunctional family whose different...