“ Categories Anniversaries Movies Reviews November 9, 2021 “Barbie doesn’t have bruises” Sid & Nancy at 35 Alex Cox's Sid Vicious/Nancy Spungen biopic is harrowing, but his unsentimental eye and the picture's tremendous performances are indelible.
“ Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies January 26, 2021 “Amelia” is little more than smoke on the wind Mira Nair's most American film may well be her most impersonal.
& Categories Movies Reviews December 12, 2020 “Safety” is a feel-good Clemson ad in the guise of a sports flick The university takes center stage in Disney+'s latest sports biopic, lacquering on sentimentality as much as it does team spirit.
& Categories Movies Reviews December 11, 2020 “Alex Wheatle” is the rare stumble in Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” Steve McQueen's anthology about Black life in London has its low point in a truncated biopic about the acclaimed British author.
& Categories Reviews TV December 5, 2020 “Selena: The Series” loses its central figure under mountains of glitter A strong cast buckles under the cotton-candy weight of the iconic singer's glamorous life, in the years before it was cut tragically short.
& Categories Movies Reviews November 17, 2020 “Mank” is a tragedy, not a love letter David Fincher's biopic of Citizen Kane writer Herman J. Mankiewicz is a slick, cynical reframing of Hollywood's Golden Age.
“ Categories Movies Reviews September 29, 2020 “The Glorias” is a run-of-the-mill biopic about a living legend Julie Taymor directs Julianne Moore in a frustratingly muted look at the feminist movement icon.
& Categories Movies Reviews September 10, 2020 “I Am Woman” is a paper-thin biopic that can’t find its roar The story behind one of the most powerful feminist anthems of the '70s gets a glossy treatment that ignores its grittier reality.
& Categories Movies Reviews August 20, 2020 “Tesla”‘s flights of fancy match the subject of its illumination In his latest anti-biopic, Michael Almereyda drenches the life of the famed inventor in layers of enticing artifice.
T Categories Columns Features Movies P.S.H. I Love You August 3, 2020 The “Moneyball” we got delivers a baseball movie for Ben Shapiro Bennett Miller's adaptation of Michael Lewis' book is an overlong, overcrowded sports biopic partially redeemed by its cast.
