The Father
A truly devastating and shattering drama about dementia, director and co-adapted by Florian Zeller based on his own play. The Father holds some Bergmanesque moments to chronicle the life of [...]
The Best Films of 2020 – Noah Damron
2020 was unquestionably the most difficult year for us as a collective whole. Through the unimaginable hardships some of us have had to endure, to the newfound outlook of being [...]
The Best Films of 2020 – Robert Butler
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 [...]
Pieces of a Woman
Life partners and creative duo Kornel Mundruczo and Kata Weber, known for idiosyncratic work such as White God and Jupiter's Moon, have tapped into a highly personal story with their latest [...]
One Night in Miami
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 [...]
Ghost Tropic
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 [...]
A Sun
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 [...]
News of the World by Ian Courtney
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 [...]
Promising Young Woman
It's rare for a film to embody a sense of style and attitude within the very first minute; or in the case of Promising Young Woman, the first directorial feature [...]
Wonder Woman 1984
Caught somewhere between Richard Donner’s Superman and Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man is Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman 1984. The boisterous sequel to the milestone 2017 hit ups the ante with exciting new [...]