Locked Down
Timely but implausible, stylish but inconsistent, Doug Liman's "Locked Down" is a modernist narrative that's setting is during the early stages of the COVID-19 lock down, an amalgam of many [...]
Timely but implausible, stylish but inconsistent, Doug Liman's "Locked Down" is a modernist narrative that's setting is during the early stages of the COVID-19 lock down, an amalgam of many [...]
As regularly, the best surprises came in smaller packages: One year after the foreign-language film "Parasite" wowed audiences, critics, and Oscar voters, foreign language films continued to reign supreme with [...]
Empowering in ideas and full of compelling moments, "One Night in Miami" isn't your comprehensive biopic or period piece of the celebrated historical icons on display in Regina King's directorial [...]
Bas Devos's hypnotic and woozy Belgium film centers on a middle-aged Muslim woman, a widow, who gets lost during the late hours in Brussels. The film becomes very dreamlike and [...]
The artistic and critical success of such films as "The Godfather," "The Best of Youth," "The Tree of Life, "Boyhood," and "Another Year" have truly revived more sprawling films to [...]
We live in an age of information overload. Twitter feeds, Instagram stories, Reddit threads, Facebook posts, podcasts, streaming services, text messages, email, etc; they are all coming at us a [...]
Releasing right on Christmas Day on Disney+ instead of theaters due to the COVID-19 pandemic, "Soul"-- the latest Pixar animated film directed by Peter Docter and co-directed by American playwright [...]
‘Small Axe’ is an epic undertaking based on real people—excluding the ‘Lovers Rock’ entry—who lived in the West Indian community of London. And though no exact date is given with [...]
There are many ways to process "To the Ends of the Earth," easily one of the most artful and enjoyable films of 2020, which sadly is going under the radar [...]
Centering on one man's artistry and quest to making a career out of writing, played with charisma, rawness, and endless intensity by Italian actor Luca Marinelli, "Martin Eden," an Italian [...]