S Categories Movies Reviews February 15, 2023 Sharper lacks some much-needed edge Despite its solid performances & elegant look, the Apple TV+ thriller mostly falls flat.
S Categories Festivals Movies Reviews Sundance 2022 January 24, 2022 Sundance 2022: When You Finish Saving the World is Caustically Delightful With When You Finish Saving the World, Jesse Eisenberg directs Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard to strong turns as a mother-son duo united by self-obsession.
P Categories Columns Features Movies P.S.H. I Love You August 16, 2021 P.S.H. I Love You: repairing the world in Magnolia One of Philip Seymour Hoffman's finest moments has him playing a beacon of comfort and compassion.
“ Categories Movies Reviews June 4, 2021 “Lisey’s Story” is beautiful, moving & very long Stephen King adapts one of his most personal novels in a lavish, well-acted production that maybe should have been six episodes instead of eight.
& Categories Movies P.S.H. I Love You May 4, 2021 “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay” is a strange final film for Philip Seymour Hoffman Philip Seymour Hoffman's final role, as a CG-assisted reprise in the final Hunger Games films, is more a commemoration than a performance.
P Categories Columns Features Movies P.S.H. I Love You January 18, 2021 PSH is marvelous in “The Big Lebowski” Philip Seymour Hoffman plays the ultimate lackey in The Coen Brothers' gleefully silly stoner comedy.
“ 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.
T Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies June 14, 2020 The “Psycho” remake is an ironically bloodless exercise in technique Gus Van Sant's remake of the Alfred Hitchcock classic is a cut-and-paste exercise that plays like little more than a rehash of the original.
F Categories Movies December 17, 2019 From the Ranks of the Freaks: “Magnolia” at 20 Paul Thomas Anderson's character study baffled, aggravated & emotionally moved a divisive audience.
A Categories Movies August 19, 2019 After the Wedding Review: A grown-up drama that doesn’t trust its own story This English-language remake of the 2006 Danish drama stops short of having anything interesting to say about its privileged protagonists.
