The Penguin Lessons
At a first glimpse, it seems practical to easily dismiss The Penguin Lessons. For all its faults and obvious cliches, the film is actually very sincere in approach and execution, [...]
At a first glimpse, it seems practical to easily dismiss The Penguin Lessons. For all its faults and obvious cliches, the film is actually very sincere in approach and execution, [...]
With a hang-out movie ease and naturalistic characters and dialogue, co-writer and director Carson Lund in his debut feature has crafted an amusing, elegiac, and highly authentic sports comedy that [...]
One of the most disappointing experiences one can have is to see a mob thriller starring not one, but two Robert De Niros (in dual roles) that's not particularly engaging [...]
Steven Soderbergh returns with his delirious style with another skillfully mounted spy film titled Black Bag that's in the tradition of some of his other caper films with twists and [...]
Mickey 17 is certainly a unique science fiction film that ineffectively combines satire, absurdity, overcooked ideas, and some one-dimensional performances, and its end result is a monotonous slugfest. More frequently [...]
Highly prolific filmmaker Steven Soderbergh once delivered some innovation with his skillfully mounted ghost story Presence, in which he once again utilizes digital cameras to capture the aesthetic of the [...]
Like many other Iranian films and filmmakers, Mohammad Rasoulof's latest film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, had to be made discreetly in fear of being fined or jailed. This [...]
As we entered the fall movie season; I had already rated six films my highest rating of four stars. I wasn't sure if I was overrating things, but as the [...]
Halina Rejin's Babygirl is already generating awards buzz from critics with anticipation from audiences for how racy the material is. While I think it's great that seeing a film like [...]
It's an inevitable, perhaps an expected decision, but it was only a matter of time before the great Pedro Almodóvar would follow suit and pivot towards his first American film [...]