& Categories Movies Reviews December 11, 2020 “Gunda” is a wordless symphony of the lives of livestock Viktor Kossakovsky's deeply anthropological look at the everyday rhythms of farm life bursts with precision and quietly devastating purpose.
& Categories Movies Reviews November 12, 2020 “Fireball” is a dense, fascinating look at more of Werner Herzog’s interests The documentary about the destructive beauty of meteors is equal parts perplexing and engaging.
& Categories Movies Reviews November 5, 2020 “Blood Vessel” nicely fills in that post-Halloween void Writer-director Justin Dix pits WWII shipwreck survivors against monsters in a sometimes too restrained but fun horror adventure.
& Categories Movies Reviews October 30, 2020 “May the Devil Take You Too” offers stylish, overstuffed scares Timo Tjahjanto brings his maximalist sensibilities to a followup that tries to be several different horror movies at once.
& Categories Movies Reviews September 26, 2020 “The Secret Society of Second-Born Royals” inherits its charms from better franchises Disney+ tries to blend its love of princes and princesses with its new focus on superheroes, with mixed results.
I Categories Movies Reviews August 14, 2020 In Soviet Russia, “Sputnik” scares YOU Alien parasites wreak havoc on Mother Russia in this pulpy, viscerally effective creepfest.
& Categories Movies Reviews July 16, 2020 “The Painted Bird” loses itself in its own detached misery Václav Marhoul's three-hour WW2 fable is a brutal film tied up a bit too rigidly in its meticulous depictions of violence.
W Categories Movies Reviews July 3, 2020 War is hell, and unfortunately, so is “The Outpost” Rod Lurie's military thriller about the Battle of Kamdesh can't quite nail its critique about the horrors of war.
W Categories Movies Reviews June 19, 2020 With “Wasp Network,” Olivier Assayas loses his sting Olivier Assayas' latest is a clunky thriller that resists cinematic convention to its detriment.
& Categories Movies May 27, 2020 “The Vast of Night” is a fuzzy, evocative sci-fi debut Andrew Patterson's tale of strange goings-on in '50s New Mexico is full of detail, even if it doesn't reach its full potenial.
