Film Festivals

London Film Festival Review: Rose Glass’ slow-burn horror ‘Saint Maud’ is a potent debut feature

Courtesy of BFI London Film Festival and Film 4 Productions As the nights turn longer and the weather turns colder,… Read More

October 9, 2019

London Film Festival Review: ‘The House of Us’ is an utter delight

It's no wonder kids find us adults so baffling so much of the time. After all, even us curmudgeonly critics… Read More

October 8, 2019

London Film Festival Review: The arresting and experimental ‘Krabi, 2562’

An insider's view of her home country intertwines with an outsider's view in Krabi, 2562, an accessible experimental work from Anocha Suwichakornpong… Read More

October 7, 2019

Review: In ‘The Irishman,’ Scorsese’s mobsters age, facing their own mortality

Joe Pesci and Robert De Niro in THE IRISHMAN (Courtesy of Netflix) Legends reunite in Martin Scorsese's sprawling gangster epic… Read More

September 28, 2019

LFF Review: Alfre Woodard is mesmerizing in ‘Clemency’

Alfre Woodard in CLEMENCY (Courtesy of LFF / Paul Sarkis) A stark, sombre drama with barely a second's worth of… Read More

September 23, 2019

LFF Review: The fascinating, abstract ‘Monos’ marvels as much as it confounds

MONOS (Courtesy of LFF) There are monsters, and then there are monsters! Here, on this fertile, bounteous planet, the monsters… Read More

September 19, 2019

Telluride Review: Trey Edward Shults’ ‘Waves’ is an undeniable masterpiece

WAVES (photo courtesy of A24) "History never repeats itself but it rhymes." That Mark Twain quote is a wonderfully reoccurring… Read More

September 3, 2019

Telluride Review: ‘Judy’ is Renée Zellweger in peak form

Renée Zellweger as Judy Garland in JUDY (Photo credit David Hindley/Courtesy of LD Entertainment and Roadside Attractions) In Judy, Renée… Read More

August 31, 2019

Telluride Review: ‘Ford v Ferrari’ is a thrill ride with an emotional supercharge

Matt Damon and Christian Bale in Twentieth Century Fox’s FORD V FERRARI (Photo Credit: Merrick Morton TM and © 2019… Read More

August 30, 2019

Review: ‘After the Wedding’ is a dull and predictable melodrama despite a radiant Michelle Williams

(Photo: Elizabeth Fisher) Funny how things have a tendency to endure when there’s a bit of money behind them. Funnier… Read More

June 8, 2019

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