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, the product of years of... Read More
Film Reviews
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 good one, shot and directed... Read More
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 off the 2021 Sundance Film... Read More
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 interest in the film, at... Read More
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 sweet, sad, and bulkily intimidating... Read More
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 would race to watch. It... Read More
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 longer provide moral guidance or... Read More
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, but there’s just something about... Read More
Film Review: ‘The Midnight Sky’ feels like a hopeful magnum opus, but falls short of epic odyssey
George Clooney is a director of much ambition. Unafraid it seems to tackle any narrative of any genre, and The Midnight Sky feels like the... Read More
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 stage doors or in fan... Read More
‘Jay Kelly,’ ‘Hamnet,’ ‘Pluribus,’ ‘Task’ and More on AFI’s Top 10 Films and Television of 2025 Lists 
‘Frankenstein’ to Receive Visionary Honor from Palm Springs International Film Awards 
Robert Yeoman to be Honored with American Society of Cinematographers’ Lifetime Achievement Award 
National Board of Review: ‘One Battle After Another’ Tops in Film, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor; Netflix Lands Four in Top 10