Category: Review

For those of us who were kids in the 1980s, Brooke Shields was a goddess. By 1981, she was a world famous model and actress….

A breezy ensemble piece rides into town with Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders, a period crime drama starring Tom Hardy, Austin Butler, and Jodie Comer. Chronicling…

Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness is going to be a problem. The worst film critic you know (or wannabe critic) will laud it as an underappreciated masterpiece….

Coming-of-age stories. Decade-spanning humanist narratives. Rotoscoped paranoid thrillers. Richard Linklater is a member of a unique class of filmmakers whose next move can never be…

This writer’s first encounter with the Taiwanese-Hong Kong actress, Shu Qi, was in the late 1990s. One of the few occasions a certain sibling, a…

She’s mad as hell and as vengeful as they come— a woman of few words with the red hot fire of revenge in her eyes….

Lina Wertmüller might have a German name, but she is an unsung heroine of Italian cinema. The writer and director was the very first woman…

Iranian maestro filmmaker, Asghar Farhadi, dipped his toe in French language cinema in 2013 with The Past. It has to be said, a far more…

Based on journalist Isabel Wilkerson’s best-selling and award-winning non-fiction book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Origin is written, directed and co-produced by Ava DuVernay…

Coveted as a music video extraordinaire to all the big name singers of the twenty-twenties, it seems Grant Singer has decided to spread his directorial…

Produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions and directed by George C. Wolfe (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom), Rustin is a gripping insight into…

If Cord Jefferson had not ‘made it’ in his profession as a writer for television, it would perhaps make sense seeing him try something different….

When director Alexander Payne released his film Downsizing it was universally praised for its highly original premise. Unfortunately, however, it received decidedly mixed reviews for…

The master of humanist horror is back with his Netflix swan song, premiering this spooky season on the major streaming platform. Mike Flanagan’s The Fall of…