Film Reviews & Insights
Totally Under Control
Urgent and certainly essential during the tragic COVID-19 era, "Totally Under Control" unfolds less like a documentary and more like a riveting cable news story. Still there is no doubt [...]
Time
A truly gifted filmmaker, Garrett Bradley has been crafting shorts and small independent feature films for the last 8 years. This year, Bradley was awarded best director in the U.S. [...]
The Boys in the Band
Ryan Murphy has built up a quite the resume over the past decade or so. With television hits like American Horror Story, Pose and American Crime Story, the mega Producer [...]
Possessor
Life father, like son "Possessor" is a shocking and distressing addition into the body horror genre, merged with sexual anxiety and avatars--"Possessor" delivers a muted style with shock and grisly [...]
The Glorias
Easily her most passionate and personal film to date, “The Glorias,” Julie Taymors' fifth feature, is an overstuffed but highly enjoyable chronicle on the life and times of journalist and [...]
Feels Good Man
Remember when Pepe the Frog was charming and innocent before the popular meme character was turned into a hate symbol? This would have been in the mid- late 2000s, and [...]
Sofia Coppola Retrospective (Film Rankings from Worst to Best)
Sofia Coppola is one of the most artful and creative filmmakers working today, her work has a wide range of different genres and tones that always end up transcending itself [...]
Nomadland
Chloe Zhao's "Nomadland," the filmmaker's follow-up to "The Rider," is every bit as a emphatic and deeply complex character study as her previous endeavor. Zhao's third feature, which recently played [...]
On the Rocks
Sophisticated and charming, "On the Rocks," Sofia Coppola's appealing feature is her most lighthearted and accessible film to date, a bittersweet screwball comedy told consistently from the point of view [...]
Antebellum
Antebellum, the directorial debut from filmmaking duo Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz, opens with a quote from William Faulkner; "The past is never dead. It's not even past." A fitting [...]
The Devil All the Time
Antonio Campos's "The Devil All the Time" is his fifth feature, following the critically acclaimed "Christine" and the artfully made, "Simon Killer." This is without a doubt Campos's most ambitious [...]