Flow
Flow, the new animated film from Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis, is a cell shaded treat of wonders both visual and aural. A fantastical tale told without dialogue, the film follows [...]
Oh, Canada
Oh, Canada is the newest film from the writer-director Paul Schrader, here reunited with his American Gigolo star, Richard Gere, and once again, as with Affliction, based on a novel by the late Russell [...]
Memoir of a Snail
Memoir of a Snail is an unusual stop-motion animated feature, telling a rather devastating story about loss and guilt. What appears on the surface to be a whimsical tale soon [...]
Gladiator 2
Gladiator 2, director Ridley Scott’s sequel to his Oscar-winning Roman epic from 2000, may give many viewers familiar with that film a sense of Deja Vu. That is because, nearly beat [...]
A Different Man
A Different Man is a strange concoction. It is a film of two halves, one fairly decent and the other increasingly obnoxious and less engaging. Despite the presence of three [...]
The Piano Lesson
August Wilson was one of the most ambitious playwrights of all time, and The Piano Lesson is one of his best, most complex and fully formed works. Previously adapted into a television [...]
His Three Daughters
His Three Daughters, a drama starring Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen and Natasha Lyonne, from writer- director Azazel Jacobs, feels much like a play for most of its 101-minute run time. [...]
My Old Ass
My Old Ass, a coming-of-age film from writer/director Megan Park (The Fallout), staring Maisy Stella -- a fine film debut -- and Aubrey Plaza -- the Old Ass of the [...]
Bird
Andrea Arnold is a director that has long focused on realism. Yet, in her new feature, Bird, she has experimented with elements of the surreal. She has still rooted the story [...]
Here
Here is the latest film from director and co-writer Robert Zemeckis. It reunites him with Forest Gump scribe Eric Roth, as well as the leads of that film, Tom Hanks and Robin Wright. [...]