Review: ‘Another Round’Mads Mikkelsen Day Drinks His Way Through Midlife Crisis
Real-life Norwegian psychiatrist Finn Skårderud has a theory that human beings are born with a blood alcohol content level that's 0.05% too low, and...
Review: ‘Farewell Amor’An Angolan Family Is Reunited In Director Ekwa Msangi's Exemplary Immigrant Story
In our politically charged times, there’s a great deal of debate on the subject of immigration. There are those who have issues with people...
Review: ‘Promising Young Woman’Carey Mulligan Demands To Be Heard In Raging #MeToo Revenge Tale
NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the Sundance Film Festival.*
If Emerald Fennell’s raging #MeToo era revenge film Promising Young Woman was just Carey...
Sundance Review: ‘Summer Of Soul’Questlove's Directorial Debut Is A Mixtape Tribute To Black Pride...
It's almost unfathomable that something as truly, viscerally alive as the Harlem Cultural Festival could be locked, buried in a basement, for more than...
Review: ‘Supernova’Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci Give Career High Performances in Moving Dementia Road...
I love a good “contained movie.” A film where the plot starts and ends over a short period time often has the greatest emotional...
Sundance Review: ‘On The Count Of Three’Jerrod Carmichael And Christopher Abbott Lead An Unexpectedly...
Remember The Jerrod Carmichael Show? The stand-up comedian was always an odd fit for a traditional sitcom. His humor lends itself to rather dark...
Sundance Review: ‘Jockey’Clifton Collins Jr. Rides Into The Winner's Circle In An Affecting, Intimate...
Spend enough time at the horseraces and you begin to see beyond the showmanship of it all. It can be easy to caught up...
Review: ‘Judas And The Black Messiah’Lakeith Stanfield And Daniel Kaluuya Lead A Powerful Look...
We've seen quite a few movies lately on COINTELPRO, such as the recent Kristen Stewart-led Seberg, which chronicle the FBI's attempts to smear, disrupt,...
Sundance Review: ‘The World To Come’Katherine Waterston And Vanessa Kirby Share An Impassioned Romance...
The second recent lesbian love story set in the 19th-century, Mona Fastvold's rapturous The World to Come has only that in common with the...
Review: ‘Little Fish’Olivia Cooke And Jack O'Connell Try To Find Their Own Eternal Sunshine...
Little Fish, the thought-provoking, poetic sci-fi love story from director Chad Hartigan, is a pandemic movie that isn't about the pandemic. Thank goodness. There...