Review: Roma
Director Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men, Gravity) recreated the Mexico City neighborhood of his childhood to tell the story of Cleo, an indigenous woman who worked for his family and…
Review: First Reformed
It's that time of year again. The run-up to awards season, when I catch up on all the films I missed for one reason or another. And since First Reformed…
Review: The Favourite
The Favourite was another of my top picks at The Middleburg Film Festival. England's Queen Anne was such a sad queen. But this period dramedy of the fight to be…
Review: Shoplifters
This film from Japanese director Hiorkazu Kore-eda (Nobody Knows) is a beautiful drama about what family means. I saw it at Middleburg, and it's stayed with me. The story is…
Review: Green Book
Who'd have thought that the director of Dumb and Dumber would bring us the best movie of 2018? With two great performances from Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises, Captain Fantastic) and…
Review: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
This anthology film from the Coen Brothers will only be in a few big city theaters for a week before it begins streaming on Netflix. It's made up of six…
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Arty Chick’s Middleburg Film Festival Download 2018
Another year at a fabulous festival! I wonder how long this little Virginia horse country festival can keep it up. It's sure to burst its seams soon. This year's slate…
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Mainstream Chick’s Middleburg Film Festival Download (2018)
Despite a few (hotel reservation and RSVP) potholes on the road to this year’s Middleburg Film Festival, all’s well that ends well! And what an ending it was. The closing…
Review: BlackkKlansman
Spike Lee's latest joint is about as far fetched as you could imagine. Set in the early 70s, Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) becomes Colorado Springs, Colorado's first African-American cop.…
Review: Custody (Jusqu’à la garde)
Custody begins as a separated couple, Antoine (Denis Ménochet) and Miriam (Léa Drucker), sit before a magistrate who will decide the fate of their children. Their daughter Joséphine (Mathilde Auneveux)…
Review: Dark Money
It's the documentary of our time. Untraceable money is flooding US political races, from corporations and rich individuals with agendas that run counter to the will of the people. Filmmaker…
Review: Foxtrot
This moving Israeli drama begins with a scene every parent with a child in the army fears -- the knock at the door and the soldiers with solemn faces. They…
Review: The Guardians (Les gardiennes)
Most World War One movies are set in the battles and the trenches, but The Guardians takes place at home on a farm in rural of France. There the women…
Review: You Were Never Really Here
Joaquin Phoenix is a phenomenal actor, but his choices of roles lately tend to be odd loners in strange situations (Inherent Vice, The Master, Her, to name just a few))…
Mini-Review: The Leisure Seeker
I was looking forward to this road trip flick with Donald Sutherland and Helen Mirren. But sadly, while they are both pretty great, the script for this movie, itself an…