Review: ‘Mulan’Disney's Sweeping Wuxia Fairy Tale Is Their Best Remake Yet
Disney's long-anticipated, longer-than-expected anyway, remake of Mulan opens with a sweeping, grande journey through an ancient Chinese village. Such a vast introduction was clearly...
Review: ‘The Swerve’A Withering, Devastating Look At A Mother's Decline Into Madness
I've been left a little bit stunned by The Swerve, Dean Kapsalis' feature debut and a shocking, heartbreaking look at a mother's spiral into...
Review: ‘Enola Holmes’Millie Bobby Brown Cracks Cases And Wins Hearts As Sherlock Holmes' Fearless...
Sherlock Holmes has been re-envisioned in dozens of different ways. One of the enduring features of the character is that he can be changed,...
Review: ‘The Trial Of The Chicago 7’Aaron Sorkin's Timely, Rousing Courtroom Drama Is One...
Leave it to Aaron Sorkin to energize what might've been a stiff, paint-by-numbers courtroom drama the way he did three decades ago with A...
Review: ‘Save Yourselves!’A Hilarious Alien Invasion Comedy That Needs To Be On Your Radar
*NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the Sundance Film Festival. Save Yourselves! opens in theaters October 2nd and digital October 6th.*
I...
Review: ‘Totally Under Control’Alex Gibney's Doc Quietly Rages Over Trump's Disastrous COVID-19 Response
As the current occupant of the White House, who himself has contracted COVID-19, parades himself in front of his supporters claiming to be "immune",...
Middleburg Review: ‘Nomadland’Frances McDormand Delivers A Career Best Performance In Chloe Zhao's Enormous, Powerful...
There are a lot of deep silences in Chloe Zhao's Nomadland. Oftentimes they're intentional, as the lead character Fern (a magnificent Frances McDormand) spends...
Review: ‘Proxima’Eva Green Soars In Alice Winocour's Astronaut Drama About A Mother And Daughter's...
The last couple of years have seen a surprising amount of interest in stories about female astronauts, almost like a response to the dearth...
‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Episode 5 Review: “The Jedi”
Damn you, Dave Filoni! Why must this episode of The Mandalorian be so good!? I've watched it twice already and I'm not sure it'll...
Review: ‘Black Bear’Aubrey Plaza And An Actual Black Bear Highlight A Genre-Bending Mind Trip
*NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the Sundance Film Festival.*
I don’t know if there’s been a movie more suited to Sundance’s...