Review: Beauty and the Dogs
Beauty and the Dogs is a very timely and very taut Tunisian #MeToo movie. The entire film is just nine shots, each a slice of the harrowing story of a…
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…
Mini-reviews: The Oscar Nominated Shorts 2018 (Animation & Live Action)
Another year, another batch of short films. This year, there were none I was absolutely in love with. Last year was full of punch you in the guts social issues…
Review: The Insult (L’insulte)
Since most of what we're fed about the Middle East is about war and strife, it's always good to see a film about regular people set there. And since Lebanon…
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: The Square
Winner of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival's Palme D'Or, The Square is a darkly funny satire set in the art world. Christian (Claes Bang) is the head curator at a…
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Arty Chick’s Middleburg Festival Download
What a great festival! It's my first year at Middleburg, now in its 5th year, but I was truly impressed by their selections. It's a small festival, as yet pretty…
Review: Faces Places
Looking for a quirky fun film? How about a film where an 80-something-year-old New Wave film director takes an art filled road trip around France with a famous young muralist?…
Review: The Villainess (AK-NYEO)
If you're looking for some bloody violence, this is the movie for you! The opening sequence alone has a higher body count than even Tarantino's most epic movie. A woman…
Quickie Reviews: I Do… Until I Don’t; Crown Heights; Polina
Nothing gets you pumped for the start of the Fall movie blitz quite like the final weeks of summer at the box office. Bring it on! I'm ready for Awards…
Review: Clash
This is an edge of your seat sort of film. It takes place in Egypt after the Arab Spring, after the Muslim Brotherhood has been thrown out of the government…
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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…
Review: Menashe
Most of us will never see the Ultra-orthodox Hassidic Jewish culture from the inside. Menashe is one such opportunity. Shot in Brooklyn and almost entirely in Yiddish, it's the story…
Review: The Midwife
France's two greatest female stars unite in this bittersweet drama about unfinished relationships. Catherine Deneuve is hard-living Béatrice, who's been living out of a suitcase for decades making a living…
Review: Okja
In his audacious new film, Bong Joon Ho (Mother, Snowpiercer) pits a little Korean girl and her beloved super-pig against a corporate food mogul (Tilda Swinton). Okja is the name…