The Color Purple (2023)
It was only a matter of time before the Broadway musical that is a dual adaptation of Alice Walker's novel and Steven Spielberg's 1985 American epic of the same title, [...]
The Best Films of 2023-Robert Butler
Just as the movie theater experience started to look gloom again, 2023 was a year where was once again rescued and the moviegoing experience ended up feeling like parties and [...]
Ferrari
Ferrari is a very flawed but stylish film that eventually becomes more satisfying as it carries on. It's one of those uneven films that ends up scaping by with many [...]
Memory
A biting but finally tender love story about animosity, reconciliation, trauma, and mental health between two estranged classmates from high school offers a deeply engaging and liberating film experience. Memory [...]
The Iron Claw
It would be a cliche to point out that the best films about wrestling use the sport as a metaphor for the internal struggles going on outside the ring. In [...]
All of Us Strangers
There is often a certain melancholy to ghost movies—even when they are at their most terrifying, they often rely on themes of past trauma, grief, and other forms of reconciliation. [...]
Wonka
No more kids in chocolate factories or fantastical candy lands. In Wonka, the origin story that is based on Roald Dahl's iconic character, which has now been played by three [...]
The Zone of Interest
A quietly distressing tour de force, Jonathan Glazer's screen version of Martin Amis' 2014 novel of the same title, The Zone of Interest, takes a much different approach in its [...]
Maestro
An impressively skillful performance by both Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan provides some riveting emotional depth for Maestro, a stylized, conventional, and uneven biopic of the late Leonard Bernstein. While [...]
Poor Things
Greek provocateur Yorgos Lanthimos's adoration for surrealist aesthetics and edgy material is apparent once again in Poor Things, this time showing a fascination for silent movie aesthetics and highly stylized [...]