Review: Finding Your Feet
On the day of her husband's retirement, Lady Sandra Abbott (Imelda Staunton, Harry Potter's Dolores Umbridge) discovers he's having an affair with her best friend. So she runs away to…
Review: Oh, Lucy!
Without doubt one of the quirkiest movies I've seen in a long time, Oh, Lucy! is by turns hilarious and sad and brutally honest. The central character is Setsuko, a…
Review: Love, Simon
There's plenty to love about Love, Simon. It's a charming romantic dramedy about a cool high school senior who has an awesome family, a great circle of friends, and one…
Review: The Divine Order
The Divine Order (Die göttliche Ordnung) tells the story of women’s suffrage in Switzerland. I had no idea that the women there didn’t get the right to vote until 1971.…
Review: Lady Bird
Both of us saw this film at The Middleburg Film Festival last month. And we're both fans. Here are our two mini-reviews, which taken together are really one entire review…
Review: The Mountain Between Us
There’s plenty to mock and ridicule and dislike about The Mountain Between Us. And yet… there’s a certain entertainment value in watching a combination meet-cute/disaster flick when it stars Idris…
Review: Home Again
No harm, no foul. Sweet Home Alabama – um, I mean, Home Again, is light and fluffy, formulaic, predictable, enjoyable and forgettable. And it serves as a pleasant alternative at…
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Quickie Reviews: The Glass Castle; Wind River; The Fencer; A Taxi Driver
I’m generally a fan of (or maybe a sucker for) movies based on real people and events, so that could be why I had a pretty good week at the…
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Quickie Reviews: The Dark Tower; Brigsby Bear; Detroit; Step; An Inconvenient Sequel; Escapes
The Dark Tower. I’m not a Stephen King purist so I didn’t go into this movie with the same high expectations as those who’ve read the series of books that…
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Quickie Reviews: Girls Trip; Dunkirk; Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
This film is trippin’! It may not garner any Oscar nominations, but it’s definitely the most fun option of the week for anyone in the mood for a comedic escape.…
The Beguiled Review
When I heard this film was being done, my first thought was, "A remake of the 70s Clint Eastwood flick? Why?" But fortunately it's not a remake. Sophia Coppola has…
The Big Sick Review
The Big Sick is an offbeat romantic dramedy based on the real-life courtship between Pakistan-born actor/comedian Kumail Nanjiani and his therapist-turned-writer/producer wife, Emily V. Gordon. The pair co-wrote the script…
The Women’s Balcony Review
Right now is a great time for Israeli cinema. In the past month I've seen The Wedding Plan and Past Life, and now comes The Women's Balcony. (And Wonder Woman…
Spoiler-free Review: Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman – all the world is waiting for you - and the power you possess [at the box office]. So go kick some butt! The greatest female superhero of…