‘Mass’ review: Ann Dowd gives the performance of her career in Fran Kranz’s breathtaking and empathetic debut feature [Grade: A]
How do you find the words to speak about the unspeakable? That’s the question at the heart of Mass, and it’s the question every reviewer... Read More
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‘No Time to Die’ review: Daniel Craig’s epic final entry as James Bond cements him as the best 007 ever [Grade: A-]
With all of the high tech gadgets, beautiful women, fast cars, exotic locations, diabolical villains, James Bond has been a cinematic icon for close to... Read More
NYFF Review: Radu Muntean’s Transylvanian horror ‘Întregalde’ finds true terror in the seemingly mundane [Grade: A-]
The landscape of Întregalde pierces you with a cold so persistent, you can’t help but shiver with the characters onscreen. Radu Muntean’s drama turns the... Read More
NYFF Review: ‘Belle’ (竜とそばかすの姫) will make your heart sing [Grade: A-]
The virtual world in Belle is called “U,” as in it specializes in “you” and what makes each and every person distinctively them. Though the... Read More
NYFF Review: Cinema just took a huge dose of adrenaline with ‘Titane’ and gasped for air [Grade: A]
It’s probably better for you as a moviegoer to just take my word for it and go see Titane as blind as possible. There are... Read More
‘The Starling’ review: Theodore Melfi’s breakup dramedy flies on a broken wing [Grade: C-]
Melissa McCarthy and Theodore Melfi have shared similarities in their bodies of work. Both getting their names and work known through comedic roots, both would... Read More
NYFF Review: Engrossing ‘Prism’ doc examines how photographic technologies favor white skin, questions the “neutral camera” [Grade: A]
Eléonore Yameogo, An van Dienderen, Rosine Mbakam’s Prism may spark an entirely new conversation about racial bias in filmmaking, namely the “problem” of calibrating non-white skin tones.... Read More
‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’ NYFF review: A beautiful film, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing [Grade: B]
Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth premiered at the New York Film Festival with little fanfare—a morning screening, a press conference with COVID-induced microphone restrictions,... Read More
‘Dear Evan Hansen’ review: The renowned Broadway musical becomes a tone deaf examination of teenage anxiety [Grade: D-]
From the moment the Dear Evan Hansen trailer debuted a couple of months ago, it was marred with controversy. Fans of the show and casual... Read More
TIFF Review : Zhang Yimou’s ‘One Second’ offers a charming, if compromised, love letter to cinema [Grade: B]
Even before it reached Western shores for its premiere as the closing night film of the Toronto International Film Festival, Zhang Yimou’s One Second was... Read More
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