When you’re at a festival populated by indie slow-burners, a maudlin, easy-to-watch soap opera can be a wonderful, soupy balm. Just before the pandemic sent... Read More
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Cinema has often interrogated the power and meaning of truth. What is it? How do we get to it? How do we accept it? A... Read More
20th Century Studios’ The Last Duel, a gripping tale of betrayal and vengeance set against the brutality of 14thcentury France directed by four-time Academy Award... Read More
When studios packed up 2020 films and shuffled them off to 2021 after the coronavirus closed theaters for the majority of the year, it created... Read More
As of this writing, Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal) is the current critics’ award leader in Best Actor. He’s receiving two acting awards from film... Read More
The Male Actor in a Leading Role race at the Screen Actors Guild is overflowing with great performances from huge names and previous winners to... Read More
Is Ben Affleck on the way back to an Oscar nomination? Affleck, who won the Original Screenplay Oscar for 1997’s Good Will Hunting (with Matt... Read More
On the surface The Way Back comes off as just another sports movie, and the trailer would lead anyone to believe that. However, director Gavin... Read More
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
Adapted from the Joan Didion novel of the same title, The Last Thing He Wanted is set against the nebulous milieu of the Iran-Contra scandal.... Read More
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