Film Reviews

Sundance Review: Hand-drawn fantasy adventure ‘Cryptozoo’ soaks you in psychedelia

The best way I can think to describe My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea cartoonist Dash Shaw’s Cryptozoo,… Read More

January 29, 2021

Sundance Review: ‘Human Factors’ is a slick and engrossing whodunit

At the beginning of Human Factors you settle in thinking it will be your standard home invasion thriller. Albeit a… Read More

January 29, 2021

Sundance Review: ‘CODA’ speaks its own language as a potent and moving coming of age story

Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” is a key player in CODA, the new film from writer/director Sian Heder which kicked… Read More

January 28, 2021

Film Review: ‘The Little Things’ is a criminally boring whodunit that’s more of a whocares

When you hear that three Oscar winners are starring in a movie, normally it would garner at least a heightened… Read More

January 26, 2021

Film Review: Matthias Schoenaerts and Joel Kinnaman in ‘Brothers By Blood’ isn’t nearly as horny as it sounds

A note to everybody in the business of casting and making movies -- hire Matthias Schoenaerts. His specific mixture of… Read More

January 19, 2021

Film Review: Jason Segel is winning in heartfelt family drama ‘Our Friend’

It’s safe to say that a movie about a young mother dying of cancer might not be one that someone… Read More

January 17, 2021

Film Review: ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ puts the “mess” in message

WARNING: this review contains major spoilers. In a previous op-ed, I bemoaned how, regardless of the intent behind their invention, superheroes no… Read More

December 24, 2020

Film Review: Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan have a ‘Wild Mountain Thyme’ in sweet and silly romcom

Simply on its face, the new film Wild Mountain Thyme is a light-hearted, almost fantastical take on a Hallmark romance,… Read More

December 9, 2020

Film Review: ‘The Midnight Sky’ feels like a hopeful magnum opus, but falls short of epic odyssey

(Philippe Antonello/NETFLIX) George Clooney is a director of much ambition. Unafraid it seems to tackle any narrative of any genre,… Read More

December 9, 2020

Retrospective: 30 years later, ‘Misery’ still loves company

"I'm your number one fan" To think, 30 years ago, those five words were just a thing people said at… Read More

December 4, 2020

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