4 Star Reviews
Movie Review: The Teacher’s Lounge
Generally, as Eighth Grade showed us, middle school is a viper’s den. The goal is simply to come out alive and relatively emotionally unscathed from …
Movie Review: Fallen Leaves
Ah, the great amour. Most movies make falling in love feel like magic, with gorgeous, ambitious people finding romance in exotic, beautiful places. Fallen Leaves …
Movie Review: Origin
I wish more filmmakers were as bold as Ava DuVernay. Since Selma, DuVernay has grown more and more ambitious with her projects, tying modern policing …
Movie Review: Society of the Snow
It was time. While 1993’s Alive was fine, the movie suffers from West Side Story syndrome, in that it takes an Uruguayan story and whitewashes …
Movie Review: All of Us Strangers
Everyone wants to be loved. Mr. Rogers once said the greatest thing we can do is convince someone that they’re loved and capable of loving. …
Movie Review: The Color Purple
It was time. Not that I didn’t enjoy Steven Spielberg’s take on Alice Walker’s celebrated novel. But with the success of the musical version of …
Movie Review: Maestro
No more convincing needed. I was optimistic about Bradley Cooper, the director, after A Star Is Born, but cautiously so, because that one was just …
Movie Review: Poor Things
Maybe it was Colin Farrell. Yorgos Lanthimos has a certain way with words, which work perfectly if Colin Farrell says them. However, that dialogue inside …
Movie Review: Monster (2023)
In the big US corporate world of moviemaking, stories about complex ordinary people aren’t gonna bring in the big bucks, so they only go for …