Movie Review: Broker
I always get excited when a new Hirokazu Koreeda movie is coming out. Koreeda is maybe our most empathetic filmmaker, finding these incredible, complicated real …
4 Star Reviews
Movie Review: The Swimmers
Apologies to The Thirteenth Year. Or Swimfan. Or whoever’s working on a Michael Phelps biopic. But I don’t need to see another movie about swimmers. …
Movie Review: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
It’s pretty easy to grow bored of all franchises. Many get set in their ways, and feed audiences the same story, over and over again, …
Movie Review: Women Talking
It’s unfair She Said and Women Talking have to be out within a month of each other. The movies are going to be confused for …
Movie Review: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
The first Knives Out was a nonstop delight: a modern detective caper built upon and breaking down the murder mystery. So when Netflix ponied up …
Movie Review: Babylon
I’d like to think Babylon started with Damien Chazelle sitting in a screening of Singin’ in the Rain. And when the film ends, everyone is …
Movie Review: Avatar: The Way of Water
Big Jim. Never doubted you for a second! After spending a decade going to the Mariana Trench and generally living under the sea, James Cameron …
Movie Review: 2nd Chance
Ramin Bahrani certainly finds interesting stories. He can easily tell a tale about a homeless kid working in body shops or an Indian taxi business …
Movie Review: Fire of Love
Fire of Love sounds like a terrible Lifetime Movie about a firefighter who is also a pyromaniac. What it actually is, is a sweet documentary …
Movie Review: The Inspection
Don’t ask don’t tell. Elegance Bratton had to enter the military with this policy in place, designed to keep gay people in the closet preventing …