Review: Juliet, Naked
Ah, what a breath of fresh air! Juliet, Naked is a charming and funny romantic drama that is pure and simple in its development of characters and story. In lesser…
Review: Crazy Rich Asians
Cue up the sequel. I suspect Hollywood will see enough green from Crazy Rich Asians to justify a speedy greenlight for a second (and third) film based on the popular…
Review: Adrift
Adrift (not to be confused with the 2006 horror drama Open Water 2: Adrift) is a meet-cute swept into a Perfect Storm. It’s based on the true story of Tami…
Review: Modern Life Is Rubbish
The movie has little to do with modern life or rubbish (though I'd think twice before putting the latter in the title of any movie.) It's the name of an…
Review: I Feel Pretty
I Feel Pretty is an average comedy about an average woman who bumps her head in a Soul Cycle class and suddenly believes she’s been transformed into the most gorgeous…
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: Midnight Sun
Midnight Sun is like a Nicholas Sparks movie in training. It doesn’t pack the emotional wallop of a traditional Sparks tearjerker, but it does try hard to follow the formula.…
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: Fifty Shades Freed
Seven years hence the release of “Fifty Shades of Grey", it’s time to close the book on the movie franchise that the popular and controversial novel helped procreate. If you’ve…
Review: Phantom Thread
Imagine a special episode of Project Runway co-produced by the BBC and Investigation Discovery, featuring Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis as a meticulous and obsessive designer who takes Tim Gunn’s “make it…
Review: Call Me by Your Name
What a beautiful film! It's a coming-of-age story set in 1983. Elio (Timothée Chalamet) is 17-years-old, living in the bucolic Italian countryside with his parents in their 17th century villa.…
Review: The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water is shaping up to be an awards-season contender, though it won’t be everyone’s cup of tea – or water. It’s a mesmerizing adult fairy tale co-written…
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…