The Souvenir: Part II
Artistically speaking, The Souvenir: Part II is to The Souvenir what The Godfather: Part II was to The Godfather: a masterful follow-up to an essential masterpiece that is equally great, [...]
C’mon C’mon
C'mon C'mon, the fourth feature by Mike Mills, represents his most successful film yet, whose often colorfully quirky films and eccentric films have often proved to be overly precious and [...]
The Power of the Dog
The Power of the Dog is a brilliant, oblique adaptation of Thomas Savage's 1967 novel of the same name. Reinforced by an unpredictable premise, superlative performances, a modern view of [...]
The Humans
Stephen Karams' experience as a playwright and screenwriter (The Seagull, Speech & Debate) delivers him promising directing skills in The Humans, a Thanksgiving family reunion dark comedy that is carried [...]
House of Gucci
Following the traditional rise and fall formula, where the main characters of the yarn rise from nothing and fall right after hitting the peak as the narrative unfolds, House of [...]
King Richard
Following his 2018 feature debut, the Sundance police drama "Monsters and Men," Reinaldo Marcus Green makes a huge leap from an indie drama to a studio drama with King Richard, [...]
Wes Anderson Retrospective (Film Rankings from Worst to Best)
Wes Anderson's tenth film, The French Dispatch, was just recently released to some polarizing reactions from both critics and audiences, but it still has its champions. The most common question [...]
Passing
Actress turned filmmaker Rebecca Hall's debut feature shows a commendable passion for human drama, as well as for the technical aspects of filmmaking, composition, and framing in Passing, a black-and-white [...]
Belfast
In Kenneth Branagh's award-winning crowd-pleaser, Belfast, a nostalgic and self-autobiographical chronicle of Branagh's own childhood as well as a tribute to his lovable and loving family--who is forced to come [...]
Wife of A Spy
Once again succeeding on a artistic level, Wife of A Spy, which is acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshsi Kurosawa's 23rd film which was released on Japanese Television last year during the [...]