Quickie Review: Disney’s Flora & Ulysses
I'm not exactly the target demo, but I thoroughly enjoyed Disney's Flora & Ulysses. It's a family adventure comedy based on the Newbery Award-winning book "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated…
Quickie Review: The World To Come
Dreary. That's the life of the people who inhabit this film. It's 1859, somewhere in upstate New York, and a farmer and his wife, Abigail (Katherine Waterston, Fantastic Beasts, Steve…
Review: The Mauritanian
This drama based on Mohamedou Ould Slahi's NY Times best-selling memoir "Guantánamo Diary" tells the story of a man swept up in the US government's post-9/11 frenzy to find the perpetrators.…
Review: French Exit
If this film does one good thing, it's that it reminds us what a wonderful screen presence Michelle Pfeiffer is. She stars as Frances, a New York socialite who, following…
Review: The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
There’s certainly no shortage of movies featuring a time loop or “temporal anomaly.” There’s Groundhog Day, of course, as well as 12 Dates of Christmas, Before I Fall, Edge of…
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Arty Chick’s Seven Flicks: Week 9
Week Nine of films that I remember fondly. It's amazing how many great films come to mind when I go down my cinematic memory lane. A lot of this week's…
Review: The Dig
I'll be the first to admit that I had no idea where Sutton Hoo was or that it was the site of one of the great archeological finds of the…
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Thriller
Arty Chick’s Seven Picks: Week 8
This week's picks include classics and cult faves. There's only one foreign film in the bunch for a change of pace. Two of the films come from the same director,…
Review: Our Friend
Read this first. It's the Esquire article on which Our Friend is based. The writer is Matthew Teague, a journalist who wrote an essay about the slow and painful death…
Review: One Night in Miami
Academy Award winning actress Regina King's extraordinary directorial debut is an adaptation of a play that tells the story of one evening in 1964 when four African-American icons get together…
Review: Wonder Woman 1984
Wonder Woman 1984 is the first movie released mid-pandemic for which I was sorely tempted to mask up and venture into a theater. Really glad I didn't. Lasso of truth:…
Review: The Midnight Sky
Not sure what George Clooney thought he was making, but this post-apocalyptic drama is a slog. In it a heavily bearded Augustine Lofthouse (Clooney) is left behind at an arctic…
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Arty Chick’s Seven Picks: Week 6
This week's picks include two French films that couldn't be more dissimilar, one a psychological thriller, and the other a magical story set in Paris. There's an Italian ode to…
Review: News of the World
Why does Tom Hanks make everything just a bit more comforting? In his latest, he plays Capt. Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a Civil War veteran who travels from town to town…
Review: First Cow
Sometime in the early 19th century somewhere in the Pacific Northwest two men meet in the woods near a trappers' encampment. One of them is naked. What follows is the…