I sometimes find it necessary to clarify with people – and, honestly, sometimes with myself – that I don’t engage in the loose avocation of film criticism to employ what might be termed “better judgment.” I don’t read various films...
Director Marjane Satrapi does plenty in Radioactive to bring distinction to yet another biopic about a great historical figure. But, even at its core, the story of Marie Curie stands apart simply by being an eccentric genius tale in which...
Scott Cooper’s Hostiles opens with a scene of bracing brutality in which a family of late-1800s plains settlers is slaughtered by a group of Comanche. Immediately following that is a scene in which a group of U.S. soldiers laugh and...
