Film Reviews & Insights
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
The tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons has been around since the mid-1970s. It was initially a sensation, though the fortunes of the game and the various companies that have [...]
A Good Person
Two deeply compelling characters desperately needing to find atonement after a devastating tragedy ruinously reconnect in Zach Braff's four-director feature A Good Person. Florence Pugh and Morgan Freeman headline a [...]
John Wick: Chapter 4
It's hard to imagine a franchise that finds new and inventive ways to consistently deliver like the John Wick franchise. What began as a quest for revenge over a puppy [...]
Tori and Lokita
It is remarkable just how the Dardenne Brothers are still turning out emotionally charged and emotionally bleak films that hold deeply felt compassion nearly 30 years after making a splash [...]
The Lost King
King Richard III has long been a figure of historical and literary fascination. While some contemporary accounts describe him as a good ruler, particularly to common folk, his legacy has [...]
Boston Strangler
The latest in a long line of media adaptations about one of the darkest eras in Bostonian history, Matt Ruskin's Boston Strangler attempts to repurpose the prolific serial [...]
Full River Red
Zhang Yimou, a filmmaker of China’s Fifth Generation, loomed large in American art house theaters in the early 1990s. This came following the nomination of his third film, Ju Dou, [...]
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 [...]
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
The 2019 Shazam! was seen as a breath of fresh air, not only for the DC universe which was licking their wounds after the disastrous results of the 2017 theatrically-released [...]
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 [...]