Reviews

‘Kill the Jockey’ Review: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart and Daniel Gimenez Cacho Stun in Gender Fluid Mob Dramedy | Venice

The search for identity has always been a staple subject for cinema. Who are we? What is our place in… Read More

August 30, 2024

‘Babygirl’ Review: Nicole Kidman is Feral and Fearless as a Woman Taking Charge of Her Sexual Freedom | Venice

This is a film about sex! From the first moments, as the logos of production companies flash on the screen,… Read More

August 30, 2024

‘Maria’ Review: Angelina Jolie is a Woman Under the Influence in Pablo Larraín’s Minor Lietmotif | Venice

Even though he has been working in the biopic genre for a while now (NO, Neruda, Jackie, Spencer), Chilean director… Read More

August 29, 2024

‘September 5’ Review: Tim Fehlbaum’s Take on the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre Fails in its Presentation of Palestinian People | Venice

In 1972, Munich hosted the Summer Olympic Games. At the time, Germany was separated into two factions; East Germany, under… Read More

August 29, 2024

‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Review: The Juice is Back But Will This Legacy Sequel Quench Anybody’s Thirst? | Venice

Thirty six years have passed since audiences were introduced to the weird and wonderful mind of filmmaker Tim Burton. His… Read More

August 28, 2024

Wrong Place, Wrong Time: ‘The Third Man’ (1949), ‘Collateral’ (2004) and ‘Green Room’ (2016) [Retrospective]

For most of us, our tedious and boring lives are rarely interrupted with the amount of drama needed for a… Read More

August 27, 2024

‘Only Murders in the Building’ Season 4 Review: All That Sazz

Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez are in trouble.  That is, their New York sleuthy counterparts Charles, Oliver and… Read More

August 27, 2024

Make It a Double Feature: ‘Beach Rats’ and ‘Red, White & Royal Blue’

As we make our way through August, we still feel the muggy summer heat. For this month’s column, I’ve gone… Read More

August 26, 2024

‘English Teacher’ Review: The Schoolhouse Rocks in Brian Jordan Alvarez’s Hilarious Scholastic Comedy

FX enters the arena of educator comedies with English Teacher, a Brian Jordan Alvarez original that follows Evan Marquez as… Read More

August 26, 2024

‘Black Dog’ Review: Poetic Rehabilitation Drama Has Compassion For Man and Man’s Best Friend  Led By an Extraordinary Eddie Peng

Major controversies surrounded the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games while they occurred, but it was only after they came to a… Read More

August 16, 2024

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