Review: ‘Nomadland’Frances McDormand Delivers A Career Best Performance In Chloe Zhao's Enormous, Powerful Road...
*NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the Middleburg Film Festival.*
There are a lot of deep silences in Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland. Oftentimes they’re...
‘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...
Sundance Review: ‘On The Count Of Three’Jerrod Carmichael And Christopher Abbott Lead An Unexpectedly...
Remember The Jerrod Carmichael Show? The stand-up comedian was always an odd fit for a traditional sitcom. His humor lends itself to rather dark...
Sundance Review: ‘Jockey’Clifton Collins Jr. Rides Into The Winner's Circle In An Affecting, Intimate...
Spend enough time at the horseraces and you begin to see beyond the showmanship of it all. It can be easy to caught up...
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,...
Sundance Review: ‘The World To Come’Katherine Waterston And Vanessa Kirby Share An Impassioned Romance...
The second recent lesbian love story set in the 19th-century, Mona Fastvold's rapturous The World to Come has only that in common with the...
Review: ‘Little Fish’Olivia Cooke And Jack O'Connell Try To Find Their Own Eternal Sunshine...
Little Fish, the thought-provoking, poetic sci-fi love story from director Chad Hartigan, is a pandemic movie that isn't about the pandemic. Thank goodness. There...