‘Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight’ Review: A Ghostly, Ghastly Tale of Growing Up During an African Civil War | Telluride
Alexandra Fuller’s award-winning memoir Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight gets cinematic treatment, courtesy of first-time writer/director Embeth Davidtz, who also stars in the... Read More
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‘The Friend’ Review: Naomi Watts and a Very Good Boy Named Bing Make for a Deeply Dignified Dog Story | Telluride
You don’t ever own your dog, not really. When you bring one into your life, you simply become their human, their companion, and protector, the... Read More
‘Kill the Jockey’ Review: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart and Daniel Gimenez Cacho Stun in Gender Fluid Mob Dramedy | Venice
The search for identity has always been a staple subject for cinema. Who are we? What is our place in the world? How are we... Read More
‘Babygirl’ Review: Nicole Kidman is Feral and Fearless as a Woman Taking Charge of Her Sexual Freedom | Venice
This is a film about sex! From the first moments, as the logos of production companies flash on the screen, we’re immersed in a world... Read More
‘Maria’ Review: Angelina Jolie is a Woman Under the Influence in Pablo Larraín’s Minor Lietmotif | Venice
Even though he has been working in the biopic genre for a while now (NO, Neruda, Jackie, Spencer), Chilean director Pablo Larraín was under the... Read More
‘September 5’ Review: Tim Fehlbaum’s Take on the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre Fails in its Presentation of Palestinian People | Venice
In 1972, Munich hosted the Summer Olympic Games. At the time, Germany was separated into two factions; East Germany, under the influence of a communist... Read More
‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Review: The Juice is Back But Will This Legacy Sequel Quench Anybody’s Thirst? | Venice
Thirty six years have passed since audiences were introduced to the weird and wonderful mind of filmmaker Tim Burton. His sophomore feature Beetlejuice – a... Read More
Wrong Place, Wrong Time: ‘The Third Man’ (1949), ‘Collateral’ (2004) and ‘Green Room’ (2016) [Retrospective]
For most of us, our tedious and boring lives are rarely interrupted with the amount of drama needed for a narrative film. But they could... Read More
‘Only Murders in the Building’ Season 4 Review: All That Sazz
Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez are in trouble. That is, their New York sleuthy counterparts Charles, Oliver and Mabel are. After the big... Read More
Make It a Double Feature: ‘Beach Rats’ and ‘Red, White & Royal Blue’
As we make our way through August, we still feel the muggy summer heat. For this month’s column, I’ve gone with two films for those... Read More
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