Film Reviews & Insights
Empire of Light
Oscar-winning filmmaker Sam Mendes pays tribute to the cinema in Empire of Light, a film of lofty themes that doesn't necessarily ring true or capture the depth that it's aiming [...]
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
In All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, seasoned documentary filmmaker and Academy Award winner Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) delivers her most wrenching film yet, a galvanizing, deeply powerful documentary about photographer [...]
Good Night Oppy
From the earliest days, Man has looked to the skies and wondered what is out there. As technology advanced, humans have been able to travel first to orbit around the [...]
Violent Night
Filmmaker Tommy Wirkola is best known for making high concept genre films that often dabble in the ridiculous. This is the director who has given us two Nazi zombie movies, [...]
Sr.
Undeniably charming and equally bittersweet, Sr. is an unconventionally crafted documentary that engages and moves just as much as any other narrative out right now. With a savvy style and [...]
The Eternal Daughter
Closure and catharsis are certainly the themes explored, but at its core, Johanna Hogg's latest feature, The Eternal Daughter, is an examination of artistic healing, isolation, and motherhood. Incisive, melancholic, [...]
Utama
A simple story of aging and reconciliation between an elderly Quechua-speaking married couple and their grandson where they reside in their Altiplano Basin community that is within the Andes in [...]
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
When writer/director Rian Johnson’s witty Knives Out was released over Thanksgiving 2019, it was seen as a massive breath of fresh air. An original whodunnit with an all-star cast and [...]
The Inspection
The autobiographical, or at least semi-autobiographical, film has been a hot topic in the last few years. From Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir films and Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma, to this year’s [...]
Bones and All
An impulsive misfit finds true love with a mysterious drifter in the bizarrely romantic horror-road movie Bones and All. The film echoes Claire Denis' cannibal love story Trouble Every Day [...]
The Fabelmans
An emotionally complex, sentimental journey through the joyful and equally tormented memories of iconic filmmaker Steven Spielberg's artistic origins and formative years, Spielberg's latest film, The Fabelmans, is his own [...]