Movie Review: Bones and All
Call it the Armie Hammer effect. After spending time with a vile, real life cannibal, Luca Guadagnino and Timothee Chalamet found a safe space to …
Drama
Movie Review: Causeway
There’s usually a very important stepping stone a movie star makes: the small indie breakout performance. Jennifer Lawrence didn’t come fully formed with her Katniss …
Movie Review: The Wonder
How do legends start? And maybe more importantly, why do they start? The Wonder tackles those big questions, sending Florence Pugh to rural Ireland to …
Movie Review: My Policeman
My Policeman got Biff Tannen’d. I’m sure the writers had a well thought out period piece about the struggles of LGBTQ people in a different …
Movie Review: The Fabelmans
It’s Steven Spielberg’s time. In the age of director origin stories (Roma, The Hand of God, Belfast, Armageddon Time), it was only a matter of …
Movie Review: Argentina, 1985
My ignorance never let me know there was another Nuremberg trials. Down in Argentina, the old military leaders faced a similar trial against the new …
Movie Review: The Good Nurse
No, The Good Nurse is not the latest CBS procedural. It’s wildly the opposite of that: a lifetime movie masquerading as a prestige drama. Netlifx, …
Movie Review: Aftersun
Wow, I was such a dick on my vacation at 11 years old. Mine was in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee, where I did NOT …
Movie Review: Armageddon Time
Make something personal. That’s the advice given to EVERY moviemaker on the planet. Well, James Gray, I hope you go back to space, or the …
Movie Review: Call Jane
Who is Jane? We all should be. The Jane Collective was a group that ran out of Chicago from 1969 to 1973, helping women who …