Review: ‘The Wonder’Florence Pugh Examines A Miracle In Sebastián Lelio's Eerie, Confounding Misstep
Logic vs faith. It’s a dance as old as time, and has often made for compelling cinematic entertainment. Sebastián Lelio’s austere but gripping film The...
TIFF 2021 Review: ‘The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain’Benedict Cumberbatch Is The Quirky Feline...
It can't be coincidence my friend's cat came scurrying into my room just as The Electrical Life of Louis Wain was starting, can it? The peculiar...
Review: ‘Greyhound’Tom Hanks' Admirable, Tense Naval Thriller Refuses To Dive Beneath The Surface
It doesn't matter whether he's on the battlefield, on teaching children as Mr. Rogers, sailing the high seas in Captain Phillips, or commanding a...
Review: ‘Soul City’Topic Streaming’s New Horror Anthology Series Delivers Few Scares, but Is Still...
Recently launched and new streaming service Topic (from First Look Media) promised “borderless entertainment” as it delivers content from a variety of places as...
Review: ‘Misha And The Wolves’Is A Disappointing Documentary Film That Focuses On The Wrong...
Misha and the Wolves is the dramatic tale of a woman whose Holocaust memoir took the world by storm. People wanted to know more...
TIFF 2021 Review: ‘The Starling’Melissa McCarthy Tangles With Grief And An Angry Bird In...
“Birds are tricky,” says Jack Maynard (Chris O’Dowd) to his pregnant wife Lilly (Melissa McCarthy) early on in Theodore Melfi's The Starling. He's not referring...
Review: ‘Encounter’Riz Ahmed Is Stellar In A Sci-Fi Road Movie That Loses Its Way
*NOTE: This review was originally part of our Toronto International Film Festival coverage.*
Who doesn’t love a good twist? When a movie subverts our expectations...
Review: ‘The United States Vs. Billie Holiday’Andra Day Soars, But Lee Daniels' Film Is...
Lee Daniels' The United States vs. Billie Holiday fits into a surge of films about Black activism in the pursuit of equal rights. While...
Review: ‘The Sky Is Everywhere’Josephine Decker Visually Explores Grief In A24's New Coming Of...
In the 2010s, nothing quite rocked the independent film world like a coming-of-age tale about an emotionally charged teenager based on an acclaimed Young...
Review: ‘Dopesick’An All-Star Cast Led By Michael Keaton Can't Save This Opioid Miniseries From...
For years the Sackler family have operated Purdue Pharma, the company responsible for creating and marketing the opioid, Oxycontin. Hulu’s Dopesick brings the once...