Review: ‘American Fiction’Jeffrey Wright Leaves Them Bamboozled In Funny, Insightful Satire About Plight Of...
*NOTE: This review was originally part of our Middleburg Film Festival coverage.*
In 1985, Robert Townsend offered one of the most insightful, and funniest looks...
Video Review: ‘The Iron Claw’Zac Efron And Jeremy Allen White Hit Hard In Sean...
A Texas family wrestling dynasty shatters under the weight of professional aspirations and personal demons. The Iron Claw is based on the real-life story...
Review: ‘The Boy And The Heron’Hayao Miyazaki's Comeback Film Will Be A Soulful, Familiar...
Nine years ago legendary Studio Ghibli animator Hayao Miyazaki "retired" with his final film, a perfect magnum opus in The Wind Rises. It told a...
Review: ‘Origin’Ava DuVernay's Audacious, Heartbreaking Exploration Of Caste Makes A Powerful Statement
Has Ava DuVernay ever made a simple, easy to digest movie meant to entertain? I guess you could argue A Wrinkle in Time, but for...
Review: ‘Godzilla Minus One’The King Of All Kaiju Is Back And He's Never Been...
I there's a golden age of Godzilla, it's hard to argue that we're not in it right now. Let's face, the king of all...
Review: ‘Silent Night’John Woo's Dialogue-Free Holiday Thriller Is A Yuletide Diversion
After the disastrous 2003 Ben Affleck thriller Paycheck, John Woo took his paycheck and went home back to Hong Kong. For two decades, the master...
Review: ‘Saltburn’Emerald Fennell's Stylish, Kinky Aristocratic Thriller Ensares You In Its Web
If Cruel Intentions and Brideshead Revisited were burned to ashes then laced with acid and smoked, you’d get the sensation of Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman follow-up, Saltburn. A constantly-shocking look...
Review: ‘Monster’Hirokazu Kore-eda's Intriguing Mother-Son Mystery And Sweet Coming-Of-Age Tale Demands You Keep An...
If there's a universal truth about the films of Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, it's that nothing is ever quite as it seems. The complicated...
Review: ‘Maestro’Bradley Cooper Commits Everything In Heart-Swelling, Flawed Leonard Bernstein Biopic
Are movies about flawed musical conductors the critical equivalent of studio blockbusters about dinosaurs? Following last year's Tár which starred Cate Blanchett as a conductor...
Review: ‘Napoleon’Joaquin Phoenix Commands Laughter In Ridley Scott's Brutally Uneven Historical Biopic
There seems to be a movement by filmmakers of a certain vintage to reintroduce the classic Hollywood epic, historical biopics (always about powerful, flawed...