Review: ‘Barry’ is back for season 2 and as lethal as ever
In 2017, when Bill Hader signed on with HBO to create, write, direct and star as the titular character in a new show, Barry, we... Read More
Reviews
Review: Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’
Jordan Peele has always had his finger firmly on the pulse of the human condition – this was evident in his groundbreaking comedic work on... Read More
Review: ‘I Am Not a Witch’
In Nigeria, within Keats State, a Goat was arrested as an armed robbery suspect. A vigilante group apprehended the Goat with the impression that human... Read More
Review: ‘Sorry to Bother You’
Coonery, buffoonery, toxic masculinity, feminism, identity, and Black lives matter are among the many themes tackled in Boots Riley’s directorial debut film Sorry To Bother... Read More
Review: ‘Assassination Nation’
In Sam Levinson’s new film Assassination Nation, Lilly, Em, Sarah, and Bex are four teenaged high school girls so in love with themselves and obsessed... Read More
Review: Adam McKay’s ‘Vice’ (★) is the worst film of the year
Rarely have I seen a film that hates its audience as much as Vice does. Poised as a satire on the rise of former Vice... Read More
Review: ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ (★★★★)
Barry Jenkins follows up his Oscar-winning Moonlight with another masterpiece; a lush, visual love story and the first English-language film adaptation of James Baldwin’s work It... Read More
AFI Fest Review: Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie Rule in ‘Mary Queen of Scots’ (★★★½)
In her superb feature directorial debut, Josie Rourke casts Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie as rival queens who are sisters doin’ it for themselves Unapologetic... Read More
Review: ‘On the Basis of Sex’ never rises above its basic biopic nature (★★)
No cliché is left unturned in this paint by numbers biopic that means well but ultimately loses its case Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 85, fell... Read More
Review: Joel Edgerton’s honest and empathetic ‘Boy Erased’ (★★★½)
Joel Edgerton has crafted a compassionate family drama with extraordinary performances from Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe In Boy Erased, based on Garrard Conley’s... Read More
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