Review: Belfast
This Oscar-bait memoir movie comes from writer/actor/director Kenneth Branagh who takes a look back at a defining year of his childhood. Branagh was just a 9-year-old boy in 1969, living…
Review: The Lost Daughter
In her directorial debut Maggie Gyllenhaal demonstrates that she's as talented behind the camera as in front. Oscar winner Olivia Coleman (The Favourite) stars in this psychological drama adapted from…
Review: The Hand of God
This coming of age drama from Academy Award-winning writer/director Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty) tells the story of Fabietto (Filippo Scotti). Set in Naples in the 1980s, it's clearly a…
Review: King Richard
If you're at all into tennis, this is a must see. Even if you're not, you can't help but be aware of the amazing Williams sisters, Venus and Serena. King…
Review: Tick, Tick…Boom!
Tick, Tick...Boom! Andrew Garfield is dynamite and so is this film--especially if you’re a musical theater geek. Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights, Hamilton) makes…
Quickie review: The Harder They Fall
The Western has always been a pretty white genre. The Harder They Fall turns that on its head. With a superb cast (Idris Elba, Regina King, Jonathan Majors, Zazie Beetz, Edi…
Review: The Power of the Dog
Set in the gorgeous wide open expanses of 1925 Wyoming, The Power of the Dog from Oscar-winning director Jane Campion (The Piano, Angel at My Table) is downright suffocating a lot of…
Quickie Review: Mayor Pete (documentary)
Mayor Pete is a fairly conventional behind-the-scenes documentary that provides some insight into what makes Pete Buttigieg tick-- but not much. The biggest mystery to me is why it is…
Quickie review: Julia (documentary)
It’s impossible to watch a clip of legendary cook and teacher Julia Child doing her thing without recalling the brilliantly gross SNL skit (in 1978) that cemented her status as…
Review: Spencer
If ever there were an anti-Hallmark movie, a fairy tale in reverse, this might be it! From the very first frame, Spencer self-identifies as “a fable from a true tragedy,”…
Review: Speer Goes to Hollywood
This documentary which won the Israeli equivalent of the Oscar is one of those unknown but true stories that was begging to be told. Following the publication of his bestselling…
Review: Finch
If you make it to the one-hour mark of Finch, you'll probably make it through to the end none the worse for wear. But getting through the first half of…