S Categories Movies Reviews December 18, 2021 Sing 2 sings a mechanically familiar harmony The sequel to Sing is as perfunctory and over-stuffed as its predecessor.
B Categories Movies Reviews June 29, 2021 Black Widow is an (above average) international super spy The MCU's latest delivers what you want, but feels a little bit too late.
& Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies April 26, 2020 “Avengers: Endgame” is nothing short of a miracle The culmination of Marvel's 11-year gameplan is a cinematic juggling act whose success is an unlikely achievement.
& Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies April 19, 2020 “Avengers: Age of Ultron” Blurs the Line Between “Good” and “Good Enough” With production issues and a shift in the franchise's creative team, Joss Whedon's final MCU entry has just enough to work.
& Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies April 18, 2020 “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” Saw the MCU Grow Up It's not perfect, but the Russo brothers' conspiracy-thriller take on the MCU turned its eye inward to the more explicitly political.
A Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies April 12, 2020 Assembling “The Avengers” An unlikely team of heroes could have been a cliché, but Joss Whedon's first foray into the MCU worked because it toyed with its moving parts.
& Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies April 9, 2020 “Iron Man 2” Offers Marvel’s First Stumble Out of the Gate Jon Favreau's 2010 followup to the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe also shows the weaknesses of worldbuilding over structure.
M Categories Movies November 16, 2019 Marriage Story Review: What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted? Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson & Noah Baumbach are all at their career best in a compassionate look at divorce.
C Categories CIFF 2019 Festivals October 24, 2019 CIFF Dispatch: “Jojo Rabbit”, “A Girl Missing”, “The Torch” and More (This dispatch is part of our coverage of the 2019 Chicago International Film Festival.) Welp, CIFF keeps chugging along, and the weather just keeps getting..
A Categories Movies April 23, 2019 Avengers Endgame Review: Marvel Puts a Pin on Eleven Years of Storytelling The MCU reaches a climax of sorts with the ambitious, three-hour Endgame, a satisifying end to the 11-year Marvel mythos to date.
