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.
& Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies July 15, 2020 “A Time to Kill” is a misguided page-turner of a movie Joel Schumacher's second John Grisham adaptation is a myopic look at race and the criminal justice system in the American South.
& Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month June 27, 2020 “The Sea of Trees” saw talented artists set adrift Matthew McConaughey wasted a performance in Gus Van Sant's most disappointing film, a self-important look at white male redemption.
G Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies October 31, 2019 Greed Is Good (And God) in “The Wolf of Wall Street” Martin Scorsese turned his camera to the grotesque excesses of the ultra-rich in The Wolf of Wall Street.
& Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies September 29, 2019 “The Dark Tower”: There Are Better Films Than These Childe Roland to The Dark Tower came, and unfortunately, he brought all of us along with him.
T Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies August 10, 2019 The Double Nostalgia of Richard Linklater’s “Dazed and Confused” Richard Linklater's 1993 coming-of-age classic is a battle of dueling, complicated nostalgias around '60s youth culture.
S Categories Features January 25, 2019 Serenity and the Strangeness of Post-Oscar Acting Careers In the wake of Serenity's balls-out weirdness, we look at how it fits into the oeuvre of "oddball post-Oscar films" for McConaughey and Hathaway.