Toronto Review: ‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’ is unremarkable despite strong performances by Patel and Swinton
Armando Iannucci’s period piece is a charming yet incoherent film that hold commercial potential but lacks artistic risks In a departure from his more satirical... Read More
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Toronto Review: the inventive and touching ‘La Llorona’
Jayro Bustamante’s atmospheric film is a unique, inventive look at dictatorship and racism in war-torn Guatemala In his much anticipated follow up to Tremblores and... Read More
Toronto Review: ‘You Will Die at Twenty’ is a stunning and sophisticated debut
Amjad Abu Alala creates one of the best, if not the best, Middle Eastern film of the year with a daring, poetic and reflective film... Read More
Review: ‘The Peanut Butter Falcon’ is a compassionate exploration of the human spirit
If I were to critique this movie in a vacuum, as if it were a film school assignment where I were to judge it solely... Read More
Review: ‘Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice’ hits the perfect note
It feels like it doesn’t take much anymore to become famous. Andy Warhol would have either been intrigued or horrified by YouTube if he were... Read More
Telluride Review: ‘Judy’ is Renée Zellweger in peak form
In Judy, Renée Zellweger is at the top of her game playing a Hollywood legend at the bottom of hers Biopics of legendary figures almost... Read More
Review: ‘Vita & Virginia’
Writers love to write about writers. It certainly helps that there has been no shortage of tragic literary figures in the annals of history to... Read More
Review: Mads Brügger’s ‘Cold Case Hammarskjöld’ is a compelling whodunit
I love a good conspiracy theory. Don’t get me wrong, though: not all conspiracy theories are fun. Some are silly, some are crazy, and some,... Read More
Review: ‘This Is Not Berlin’
I’m starting to feel about coming-of-age movies the same way I feel about superhero movies: at this point, it’s got to be really special for... Read More
Review: ‘The Lion King’
Between 1939, with their film animated feature Snow White, up to the early 1960s, The Walt Disney Company was the dominated studio for animated film.... Read More
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