Film Reviews & Insights
Blitz
Just because Steve McQueen made a WWII movie doesn't mean it's this contrived Oscar "Bait" movie, as some other reviewers have labeled it. For starters, McQueen has always delivered emotionally [...]
Emilia Perez
Emilia Perez is a gritty musical in the vein of Sergio Leone, a fearless fever dream in the spirit of Nicholas Refn's Too Old To Die Young meets the work [...]
Here
Here is the latest film from director and co-writer Robert Zemeckis. It reunites him with Forest Gump scribe Eric Roth, as well as the leads of that film, Tom Hanks and Robin Wright. [...]
Rumours
Presumably starting off as a political satire, but then eventually pivoting into a very dry and unfunny comedy, the filmmaker trio of Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson latest [...]
Don’t Move
Don’t Move, from the directing duo of Adam Schindler and Brian Netro, is a new thriller that owes more than a little to the rape-revenge genre. The film, while not [...]
Conclave
People of faith and non-believers alike may find Conclave enjoyable. With so many religious movies released anymore, Conclave offers a refreshing anecdote of the films that now has Ben Shapiro [...]
We Live in Time
What probably read out like a Lifetime or Hallmark movie during a table read, and what probably would still be one if in lesser hands, Joe Crowley's We Live in [...]
Anora
Sean Baker's Anora carries on his neo-realist portraits of sex workers in crisis, and it's one of his funniest, saddest, and most dramatically satisfying films yet. It plays out like [...]
The Apprentice
Just as with Oliver Stone's political films, Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi has delivered an undeniably engaging and deeply disturbing biopic on Donald Trump's rise to corporate power in the late [...]
Saturday Night
Jason Reitman is a skilled director, and he may have finally found his flair in Saturday Night. That might seem like a surprising statement about the director who has made [...]
The Outrun
The Outrun is a new drama based on the memoir by Amy Liptrot. Here, director Nora Fingscheidt, who co-wrote the screenplay with Liptrot, casts Saoirse Ronan as Rona, in a [...]