Film Review: There’s more love to be found in ‘To All The Boys: P.S. I Still Love You’
To All The Boys: P.S. I Still Love You perfectly captures the angst and awkwardness of young love. While To All The Boys Loved Before captured the sweet... Read More
Film Reviews
Film Review: ‘Birds of Prey’ turns the masculine and feminine on its head
It’s dire cultural commentary that a comic book adaptation like Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) feels revolutionary. Objectively, we’ve... Read More
Film Review: ‘Birds of Prey’ is no joke, it’s a kick-ass manifesto to an unspoken feminism
Who knew that there was such a need for a sequel to Suicide Squad? The film that became a punchline and seemed to symbolize the... Read More
Film Review: ‘The Lodge’ is traumatically delicious
There’s an exchange in Frank Darabont’s film The Mist where two characters trapped in a supermarket at the end of the world discuss whether having faith in... Read More
Sundance Review: Lee Isaac Chung’s ‘Minari’ is a poetic and heartfelt masterwork
One of the joys of minari, mischievous grandmother Soonja (Yuh-Jung Youn) tells her equally impish 7-year-old grandson David (Alan Kim), is that the Korean herb... Read More
Sundance Review: Despite good performances ‘The Glorias’ can’t liberate itself from convention
The Glorias, directed by Julie Taymor based on the book “My Life on the Road” by Gloria Steinem, shows the confluence of “Glorias” who powered... Read More
Film Review: ‘Gretel & Hansel’ is a mixed bag of tricks and treats
Alongside American popular culture’s regression into a seemingly single-minded fixation on superhero storytelling and the live-actioning of animated features there’s been a third, darker strand... Read More
Film Review: ‘The Rhythm Section’ is way off beat
Revenge has largely been a male domain in Hollywood, but, lately, there have been plenty of movies featuring female characters seeking to right some very... Read More
Sundance Review: ‘The Last Shift’ is a contrived, entry level effort
This may be my first year actually attending the Sundance Film Festival, but I know the hallmarks of the “Sundance film” when I see one.... Read More
Sundance Review: ‘The Nest’ is an astounding showcase for Carrie Coon
Sean Durkin returns nine years after Martha Marcy May Marlene with a tension-filled slow burn “What do you do for a living?” a cab driver... Read More
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 131 – ‘High Life’ (Claire Denis, 2019) 
Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ): ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Hamnet’ Lead 
North Texas Film Critics Association (NTFCA) Nominations 
Interview: ‘Marty Supreme’ Casting Director Jennifer Venditti on Finding 1950s Faces and the Magic of Collaborating with Josh Safdie