‘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: ‘Wander’Aaron Eckhart And Tommy Lee Jones' Bugged-Out Performances Headline A Middling Paranoid Thriller
Conspiracy thriller movies can be a lot of fun in the right hands. They really don't need to make a lot of sense, right,...
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...
Review: ‘Love, Weddings & Other Disasters’Jeremy Irons, Diane Keaton, & More Put The Emphasis...
Sometimes a movie's title says it all. And other times, it suggests a film that does its job too well. In the case of...
Review: ‘The Prom’Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, & James Corden Jazz Hands The Night Away...
With so many canceled high school events this year (pretty much all events), it's nice to see that The Prom is still on. Ryan...
Review: ‘Luxor’Andrea Riseborough Explores Egypt's Ruins And Her Own Past In Thoughtful PTSD Drama
How does one get over tragedy when surrounded by constant reminders of what was lost? It's a question at the heart of Zeina Durra's...
‘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: ‘Superintelligence’Melissa McCarthy's AI Comedy Needs More Laughs Written Into Its Code
Superintelligence, the new HBO Max comedy from McCarthy and director/actor husband Ben Falcone, is a perfectly pleasant, instantly forgettable film. That's probably not what...
Review: ‘Black Beauty’Kate Winslet Voices The Iconic Horse In Disney's Dark But Rewarding Adaptation
Was Black Beauty always so...grim? Perhaps it was. Admittedly, Anna Sewell's 1877 novel wasn't high on my must-read list as a kid, and it's...
Review: ‘Sound Of Metal’Riz Ahmed Delivers Raw, Ferocious Performance As A Drummer Coping With...
*NOTE: This is a reprint from my review from the Middleburg Film Festival.*
The title Sound of Metal has a double meaning in Darius Marder’s tremendous feature...