Film Reviews & Insights
80 for Brady
If you've seen any recent National Football game, you've likely been bombarded with ads of the film starring four screen legends, Lilly Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, and Sally Field [...]
One Fine Morning
Watching Mia Hansen-Løve's One Fine Morning is a fresh reminder of just how skillful of a storyteller she is, who often writes engaging characters who find themselves with sudden vulnerabilities [...]
Alcarràs
Alcarràs is a richly textured and quietly absorbing ensemble drama that echoes the work of Robert Altman and John Sayles. Dense in ideas and characterization, intoxicating in visual style, Alcarràs [...]
Knock at the Cabin
The lone cabin in the woods has become something of a hoary horror device. Most famous in the Evil Dead films, it has become enough of a formula that it [...]
Infinity Pool
With Infinity Pool, his third and boldest film thus far, Canadian filmmaker Brandon Cronenberg, proves yet again he can produce and direct another original screenplay that not only carries on [...]
Shotgun Wedding
Since the release of the critical and commercial 2019 hit Hustlers that found star Jennifer Lopez horrifically snubbed of a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination, the hope would be that [...]
Living
Remakes are a film tradition almost as old as filmmaking itself, with Georges Melies remaking a Lumiere brothers short, both made in 1896. While it would seem most worthwhile to [...]
Close
Two teenage boys find their innocent intimacy and friendship in turmoil during the new school year in Close, Lukas Dhont's sensitive and potent sophomore feature that was just nominated for [...]
Missing
Over the course of the 2010's, we've seen more and more films using social media and technology as a tool for storytelling. After the "found footage" craze sizzled out, we [...]
Women Talking
Since the #MeToo movement, many women have come forward to reveal unflattering details about the abuse they have endured and suffered from, which has been covered up for years by [...]
Alice, Darling
By channeling the tropes of psychological thrillers that are about romantic obsession, Mary Nighy's directorial debut Alice, Darling is gender-reversed like the 1996 iconic thriller Fear, but it ends up [...]