T Categories Festivals Movies Reviews TIFF 2021 September 16, 2021 TIFF 2021: Belfast is a touching, understated historical drama Kenneth Branagh directs a moving film about a working class Irish family impacted by the Troubles.
& Categories Movies Reviews June 12, 2020 “Artemis Fowl” is slapdash, snoozy, and stuck in the early 2000s The adaptation of the first in Eoin Colfer's series is alarmingly messy for a project that's been in the works for almost two decades.
T Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies December 28, 2019 The Secrets Of Great Ladies: Mendes and the Theatricality of “Skyfall” Sam Mendes powers his leading ladies to metatextual heights in his first Bond outing.
C Categories Movies December 18, 2019 Cats Review: A Little A Musical, As a Treat Tom Hooper adapts the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical into a Cronenbergian hellscape of trippy man-cats and the barest sliver of story.
& Categories Movies May 17, 2019 “All Is True” Review: Enjoyable, Slight Biopic Eschews Fact for Feeling Kenneth Branagh furthers his adoration for William Shakespeare by directing and starring in this free-wheeling biopic of the Bard's final years.
R Categories Movies April 23, 2019 Red Joan Review: A Spy Story Largely Free of Intrigue Dame Judi Dench gives a commanding performance as always, but this time-hopping spy thriller suffers from tepid, made-for-BBC delivery.
