A Couple
Co-writer-director Frederick Wiseman's second narrative feature in 20 years, A Couple, is basically just a solo performance by its lead and fellow co-writer Nathalie Boutefeu as Sophia Tolstava, the wife [...]
Inside
Willem Dafoe has always been one of the most fearless and feral actors of our modern age, testing the limits of his performances and taking very challenging projects and elevating [...]
Moving On
In his previous film, writer-director Paul Weitz (About a Boy, Grandma) ventured into grief and how to rekindle friendships and eventually find closure in the Netflix comedy-drama titled Fatherhood. With [...]
Champions
Overly banal and cliché, a U.S. remake of the Spanish sports comedy Campeones (2018) about the adventures of a disgraced foul-mouthed minor league basketball coach who finds himself in deep [...]
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
Just as familiar as any spy thriller, not quite as stylish as any of Soderbergh's Ocean's 11 films, and as unoriginal as any caper film, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre [...]
My Happy Ending
My Happy Ending, a slightly moving but uneven weepie about a fading actress attempting a career comeback as she discovers she has stage-four cancer and may only have a few [...]
The Quiet Girl
Colm Bairéad's debut feature marks Ireland's first film to be nominated for Best International Film at the Academy Awards. Bairéad has some family film elements that cross over into a [...]
Of an Age
Coming straight off his artful but uneven art-house horror debut, You Won't Be Alone, which was a period piece set in 19th century Macedonia, Goran Stolevski proves to be quite [...]
Emily
Far from being another musty costume period piece, Frances O'Connor's debut feature, Emily, is more akin to Jane Campion's arthouse dramas and Terence Davies' A Quiet Passion in just how uniquely [...]
Godland
Austere and magnificently bold, Godland marks a continuation of Icelandic filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason's study of troubled masculinity within severely harsh environments. Heretofore his first feature Winter's Brother had a setting [...]