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...
Review: ‘Silk Road’Jason Clarke Tracks Down A Digital Drug Kingpin In Tiller Russell's Cat...
In 2013, reclusive Dark Web pioneer Ross Ulbricht was arrested by the feds for creating what he called the Silk Road. While the name...
Review: ‘Body Brokers’Michael K. Williams, Frank Grillo, And Jack Kilmer Lead An Unfocused But...
There are a number of movies about the current drug crisis, told in the context of the failed war on drugs. It's amazing to...
Review: ‘Willy’s Wonderland’Nicolas Cage Is A Silent Assassin Of Evil Animatronic Puppets
Nicolas Cage vs. evil animatronic monsters? The idea practically writes itself, and thankfully for Willy's Wonderland it appears that no script got in the...
Review: ‘To All The Boys: Always And Forever’Lara Jean And Peter Face An Uncertain...
Oh, Peter. You've finally found a rival for Lara Jean's heart that you can't simply out-smile or out-charm into defeat. Netflix's adaptations of Jenny...
Review: ‘The Mauritanian’A Soulful Tahar Rahim Elevates Kevin Macdonald's Workmanlike Gitmo Political Thriller
Kevin Macdonald's The Mauritanian is the type of serious-minded, conscientious, politically relevant drama that you hope soars, because it's the only way people will...
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: ‘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...
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...
Sundance Review: ‘Together Together’Ed Helms & Patti Harrison Shine In A Modest But Affecting...
The biological clock doesn't always toll for women, at least not in Nikole Beckwith's charming, understated Together Together. It's an interesting idea; most movies...