Atlas
Atlas, the new Netflix original starring Jennifer Lopez, is a mixed bag. With a strong cast and solid technical achievements, the bones are there to have something special. Yet, uninspired [...]
The Garfield Movie
The Garfield Movie, the most recent adaptation of Jim Davis’s legendary feline, is not the most traditional version of this story or characters yet, in many ways, it just feels [...]
Back to Black
Back to Black, the new film about the life and career of the late singer, Amy Winehouse, is, like too many biographical pictures, a mostly disappointing work. This is not [...]
A Prince
Using a cast almost entirely comprised of non-professional actors, aside from the well-regarded French legends who provide the narration, the director, Pierre Creton, has created a work that is unlikely to find a large audience but which is worth sitting down to see.
Nowhere Special
Nowhere Special is a film with an ironic title. Very seldom have acts of pure love and selflessness been demonstrated on film, as here, in the tale of a dying window [...]
Gasoline Rainbow
Gasoline Rainbowsis a confused film. As with so many recent indy films, the movie believes it is more important than it is, and deeper, more profound. Concerning five kids from [...]
Wildcat
Wildcat, director and co-writer Ethan Hawke’s new biopic about the life and work of author Flannery O’Connor, lacks the unique qualities of its subject’s prose, while draining her life of [...]
Unfrosted
Jerry Seinfeld needs to stop making movies. If not as an actor, at least as a director and writer, because Unfrosted is easily the worst film this reviewer has seen in the last few years.
Jeanne du Barry
Jeanne du Barry, the new film from Maiwenn, who both directed and stars in the title role, is a bit of a stunner, just in terms of the visuals. It [...]
Humane
Humane could have been another Purge, and seems somewhat inspired, if only a bit, by that franchise. That it is not, is a good thing. The film works toward different aims, and [...]