Review: ‘May December’Julianne Moore And Natalie Portman Square Off In This Uncomfortable Psychological Drama
*NOTE: This review was originally part of our 2023 Middleburg Film Festival coverage.*
In legendary director Todd Haynes' May December, Julianne Moore and Charles Melton are...
Review: ‘Silent Night’John Woo's Dialogue-Free Holiday Thriller Is A Yuletide Diversion
After the disastrous 2003 Ben Affleck thriller Paycheck, John Woo took his paycheck and went home back to Hong Kong. For two decades, the master...
Review: ‘What Happens Later’Meg Ryan, The Queen Of RomComs Is Back And Having A...
You never know who you will run into, or when. Willa (Meg Ryan) is about to learn that the hard way in What Happens...
Review: ‘Saltburn’Emerald Fennell's Stylish, Kinky Aristocratic Thriller Ensares You In Its Web
If Cruel Intentions and Brideshead Revisited were burned to ashes then laced with acid and smoked, you’d get the sensation of Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman follow-up, Saltburn. A constantly-shocking look...
Review: ‘Monster’Hirokazu Kore-eda's Intriguing Mother-Son Mystery And Sweet Coming-Of-Age Tale Demands You Keep An...
If there's a universal truth about the films of Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, it's that nothing is ever quite as it seems. The complicated...
Review: ‘Frybread Face And Me’Taika Waititi-Produced Coming Of Age Story Is A Quiet Reflection...
Note: This review was part of our 2023 Middleburg Film Festival Coverage
In the semi-biographical coming-of-age film, Frybread Face and Me, a young man encounters...
Review: ‘Maestro’Bradley Cooper Commits Everything In Heart-Swelling, Flawed Leonard Bernstein Biopic
Are movies about flawed musical conductors the critical equivalent of studio blockbusters about dinosaurs? Following last year's Tár which starred Cate Blanchett as a conductor...
‘Flora And Son’ Interviews: Eve Hewson And Joseph Gordon-Levitt Find Harmony In John Carney’s...
To star in a movie by beloved filmmaker John Carney is to confront a certain amount of fear. Carney isn't just another director; his...
Review: ‘Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure Of Foggy Mountain’An Absurd Comedy That's The Feature...
John (John Higgins), Martin (Martin Herlihy), and Ben (Ben Marshall) have been best friends forever in Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure Of Foggy Mountain....
Review: ‘Napoleon’Joaquin Phoenix Commands Laughter In Ridley Scott's Brutally Uneven Historical Biopic
There seems to be a movement by filmmakers of a certain vintage to reintroduce the classic Hollywood epic, historical biopics (always about powerful, flawed...