‘The Starling Girl’ review: Eliza Scanlen is stirring in Laurel Parmet’s insightful and layered look at the power and problems of faith | Sundance
For people of faith, religion can be a very comforting thing. Strict observance and ancient traditions may be seen as restrictive or repressive, but they... Read More
Reviews
‘Eileen’ review: Thomasin McKenzie and Anne Hathaway enhance chilly period drama that doesn’t finish as well as it starts | Sundance
Lonely people seek companionship, and an invitation to socialize with someone new can be life-changing. For Eileen, the protagonist of the film of the same... Read More
‘Theater Camp’ review: Molly Gordon and Ben Platt are riotously funny in mockumentary-style send-up of young actors | Sundance
There’s a certain type of kid who knows they want to be an actor, and attending a theater camp allows them to meet others like... Read More
‘Sometimes I Think About Dying’ review: A somber meditation on work/life balance with Daisy Ridley’s finest performance to date | Sundance
In a small coffee shop located in a remote coastal town in Oregon, Fran (Daisy Ridley) walks in to purchase some doughnuts for the members... Read More
‘Fancy Dance’ review: Lily Gladstone and Isabel Deroy-Olson shine in an uplifting Indigenous story | Sundance
Stories that deal with serious subjects don’t always have to be entirely serious. Erica Tremblay’s Fancy Dance is a winning example. Its inspiration is a tribute to... Read More
‘The Last of Us’ review: Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey survive and thrive in Neil Druckmann’s faithful yet expansive adaptation
There has been a disconnect between video games and their adaptations in the last decade, an issue that stems from many individual hurdles to be... Read More
‘M3GAN’ review: Blumhouse’s malignant Barbie is bulletproof and has nothing to lose
It’s January. Time to watch a terrible horror movie again… for the nth time. At least it seemed that way when we first heard of... Read More
20 years ago ‘Chicago’ promised a new era of razzle dazzle movie musicals but Hollywood had… artistic differences [Retrospective]
It remains one of the most effective stylistic gambits in cinema history: Over the course of five cuts in about two seconds, we watch as... Read More
30 years later, does the ‘hoo-ah’ of Al Pacino’s Oscar win for ‘Scent of a Woman’ still smell as sweet? [Retrospective]
I fell in love with Oscarwatching in the 90s – which was a magical time for me in regard to cinema. I began to cultivate... Read More
‘Babylon’ review: Here’s to the fools who dream; Damien Chazelle’s epitaph for cinema is the evil b-side to ‘La La Land’
When Mia begrudgingly attends a party at the start of Damien Chazelle’s magical, much-discussed film La La Land, she stares at her reflection in the... Read More
César Awards: ‘The Ties That Bind Us’ Wins Best Film; Richard Linklater First American-born Filmmaker to win Best Director 
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