Review: ‘Charm City Kings’Baltimore Dirt Bike Drama Is Leader Of The Pack
NOTE: This review was originally posted for this year's Sundance Film Festival. Charm City Kings opens on HBO Max tomorrow, October 8th.
If all you’ve...
Review: ‘Totally Under Control’Alex Gibney's Doc Quietly Rages Over Trump's Disastrous COVID-19 Response
As the current occupant of the White House, who himself has contracted COVID-19, parades himself in front of his supporters claiming to be "immune",...
Middleburg Review: ‘Nomadland’Frances McDormand Delivers A Career Best Performance In Chloe Zhao's Enormous, Powerful...
There are a lot of deep silences in Chloe Zhao's Nomadland. Oftentimes they're intentional, as the lead character Fern (a magnificent Frances McDormand) spends...
Review: ‘Proxima’Eva Green Soars In Alice Winocour's Astronaut Drama About A Mother And Daughter's...
The last couple of years have seen a surprising amount of interest in stories about female astronauts, almost like a response to the dearth...
‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Episode 5 Review: “The Jedi”
Damn you, Dave Filoni! Why must this episode of The Mandalorian be so good!? I've watched it twice already and I'm not sure it'll...
Review: ‘Black Bear’Aubrey Plaza And An Actual Black Bear Highlight A Genre-Bending Mind Trip
*NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the Sundance Film Festival.*
I don’t know if there’s been a movie more suited to Sundance’s...
‘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,...
Review: ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’Chadwick Boseman And Viola Davis Highlight A Big, Bold, Bluesy...
It's tough to watch Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, George C. Wolfe's adaptation of the August Wilson play, without recognizing it as the final screen...
Review: ‘Promising Young Woman’Carey Mulligan Demands To Be Heard In Raging #MeToo Revenge Tale
NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the Sundance Film Festival.*
If Emerald Fennell’s raging #MeToo era revenge film Promising Young Woman was just Carey...
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...