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.
& Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies June 8, 2019 “Assassins” Was the Wachowskis’ First Big Break, For Better or Worse Before they made their directorial debut, Lana and Lilly Wachowski wrote the Stallone-Banderas actioner Assassins, a far cry from their future work.
