AwardsWatch - Film Reviews

Film Review: ‘Gretel & Hansel’ is a mixed bag of tricks and treats

Jason Adams January 30, 2020

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

Catherine Springer January 29, 2020

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

Clint Worthington January 29, 2020

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

Clint Worthington January 29, 2020

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

Sundance Review: ‘Miss Juneteenth’ avoids tropes to find truth in the Black experience

Valerie Complex January 29, 2020

Nicole Beharie establishes herself as one of Hollywood’s most underrated talents with her strong and heartfelt performance as Turquoise Jones in Channing Godfrey Peoples first... Read More

Film Review: Julia Garner is absolutely revelatory in Kitty Green’s taut, #MeToo drama ‘The Assistant’

Jason Adams January 29, 2020

My very first job interview when I moved to New York twenty years ago was to be the personal assistant to an award-winning and highly... Read More

Sundance Review: ‘Promising Young Woman’ wants to get rid of toxic in community

Valerie Complex January 28, 2020

Revenge is a dish served ice cold in Emerald Fennell’s directorial debut film premiering at Sundance 2020, Promising Young Woman. This film is more than... Read More

Sundance Review: ‘The Last Thing He Wanted’ plays like an awards season cast-off

Joshua Encinias January 28, 2020

Not even half a dozen Oscar winners and nominees can save a story that manages to be both formulaic and convoluted “It’s just a hard... Read More

Sundance Review: Benh Zeitlin’s ‘Wendy’ finds a director unable to grow up

Donny Sheldon January 27, 2020

Eight years ago, writer/director Benh Zeitlin’s first feature film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival like lighting in a bottle. Beats of the Southern Wild... Read More

Sundance Review: ‘Downhill’ – Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell soar in high altitude comedy

Joshua Encinias January 27, 2020

Searchlight Pictures is lucky the first movie released under their new name exceeds expectations because a title like Downhill is ripe for puns. Directors Nat... Read More

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