Movie Review: The Power of the Dog
After a year of hard hitting TV, Jane Campion returns to the big screen. Well, Netflix: she compromised. But what a welcome return it is. …
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Movie Review: Encanto
Hey, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. The last Disney/Lin Manuel Miranda pairing produced one of their great recent soundtracks, including a banger of …
Movie Review: House of Gucci
House of Gucci is very much its own thing. Not serious enough to be a Godfather like study of power, greed, and fame, and too …
Movie Review: tick, tick…BOOM!
Foooouuuuuurrrrrrrrteeen Whohohoholle Minutes! That’s how long I had really thought about the musical Rent, basically as long as it’s big famous musical number. However, in …
Movie Review: King Richard
There are a lot of movie convergences going on in King Richard, all good. It’s a Will Smith movie, and, for the first time in …
Movie Review: Belfast
I’ll take you back to 2018. Kenneth Branagh, working on a Russian accent for his upcoming role in Tenet, throws on Netflix in his downtime …
Movie Review: The Last Duel
The Last Duel is simply a class act of a movie. Ridley Scott. Matt Damon. Ben Affleck. Adam Driver. Nicole Holofcener. Jodie Comer. All these …
Movie Review: My Name Is Pauli Murray
Rosa Parks. Thurgood Marshall. Ruth Bader Ginsburg. School integration. Diner sit ins. All of these people and actions are trademarks of the trailblazing Civil Rights …
Movie Review: Titane
Titane joins Pulp Fiction, Shoplifters, and Parasite, among many other great films, as a Palme D’Or winner of the Cannes Film Festival, the fest’s greatest …
Movie Review: Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
The Prom came out at the end of last year, and made the criminal mistake of taking a young girl’s story of identity and sexuality …