Category: Theatrical Review
Some of your more expressionistic horror movies set their action in places and buildings that are already terrifying, be they gothic or rotted or in some other way sinister and dangerous. Others take a quieter, almost subliminal path, intentionally existing...
On its surface, I Love My Dad is a “comedy” about a father’s misguided attempt to stay in touch with his estranged son on social media. However, the moment you stop to think about the reality of the premise, it...
It seems like we’ve had a lot of movies lately about remote American life, observing the toil and the process of people building lives out of sight of civilization’s bustle. Some of these films give a warm approval to such...
In 1995, Ron Howard directed Apollo 13, the story of three astronauts trapped in a damaged space shuttle and the efforts of those back on Earth to rescue them. It was an amazing directorial achievement. The film’s eye for technical...
Ayoka Chenzira’s Alma’s Rainbow, newly restored, is a coming of age movie. In most ways, that means exactly what it implies, a story of a kid–in this case, Victoria Gabrielle Platt‘s Rainbow–growing into a new understanding of the world and...
It’s no new insight to point out how often the best and funniest satire comes from those within the sphere at which the satire is aimed. B.J. Novak (the Harvard-educated comic, author and television writer) certainly knows the world of...
If you only know one thing about Jono McLeod‘s My Old School, it’s probably the fact that Alan Cumming is involved. His face is front and center on every bit of promotional art, so much so that you may be...
It’s a fact, overlooked or denied by most of your more superficial film critics, that it’s possible for a bad screenplay to be saved by good direction and filmmaking. I mean, James Cameron has made a whole career out of...
Lesley Manville has been acting onscreen for nearly half a century but, at the moment, she is arguably best known for a more recent picture, 2017’s Phantom Thread. So there’s something metatextually funny about her taking the lead role in...
Anyone who’s spent a fair amount of time at film festivals, or at least watching festival-type movies, might think they’d be able to guess at the overall feel, if not the specific plot, of Jacqueline Lentzou‘s Moon, 66 Questions based...
