Movie Review: Close-Knit
Black Panther. Love, Simon. The Force Awakens. It’s wonderful when you can see someone like you in a movie. Representation is a perennial struggle in …
Drama
Movie Review: The Trial of the Chicago 7
Great directors learn from their mistakes. Aaron Sorkin was already a great writer by the time he decided to direct Molly’s Game. While an excellently …
Movie Review: First Cow
The explorer movie is always wrought with peril everywhere in search of opportunity. I mean, Leo DiCaprio was mauled by a bear! Kelly Reichart’s First …
Movie Review: Never Rarely Sometimes Always
It’s easily to craft a compelling drama out of a story about abortion, considering the immense stress on usually a young woman, and then her …
Movie Review: Cuties
I fear that Cuties is going to be remembered more for its controversy than all the good its trying to say. For all those people …
Movie Review: I’m Thinking of Ending Things
How strange it must be to see the world through the eyes of Charlie Kaufman. I imagine he was an only child to a couple …
Movie Review: I’m No Longer Here
Most stories about the immigrant experience are these sorta sad, but ultimately hopeful affairs. There’s one big reason for that though: usually the immigrant has …
Movie Review: Uncorked
Mmmmm. Robust. Tannens are on point. A little apricot aftertaste. Now lets pair that wine with….rib tips and French hip hop? That dichotomy makes Uncorked …
Movie Review: Tigertail
If you keep making good things in Hollywood, at some point some studio will give you money to make whatever story you want. Alan Yang …
Movie Review: The Half of It
Shame on you, movie industry. Alice Wu writes and directs a well liked film called Saving Face in 2004. But because the film industry wasn’t …