V Categories Movies Reviews January 8, 2023 Vesper thoughtfully traverses a moody post-apocalypse Young star Raffiella Chapman acquits herself well as a teenage scientist and survivor in a world whose beauty moves hand in hand with viciousness.
D Categories Movies Reviews September 26, 2022 Dead for a Dollar sees Walter Hill back in fighting form The legendary director teams with Christoph Waltz and Willem Dafoe for a thoughtful, superbly crafted western.
C Categories Movies Reviews September 12, 2022 Confess Fletch, confess that Jon Hamm rocks an ok comic mystery Adventureland director Greg Mottola goes for laughs and gets them, sometimes to the rest of the movie's detriment.
A Categories Reviews July 24, 2022 Alone Together is a simple, sweet rom-com Alone Together, from writer/director/star Katie Holmes, is a flawed but enjoyable lockdown-set romance.
A Categories Movies Reviews July 3, 2022 Apples sees Christos Nikous harvest the seeds of identity to appealing results Apples' memory-destroying pandemic proves a juicy, multilayered vehicle for its musings.
S Categories Movies Reviews June 26, 2022 Strawberry Mansion is a gorgeous, surreal, thoughtful dreamscape With Strawberry Mansion, directors Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney take a dreamy journey into the fantastic—one that now boasts wonderful blu-ray presentation.
T Categories Festivals Tribeca 2022 June 16, 2022 Tribeca 2022: Wes Schlagenhauf is Dying is a shambling, unfunny exercise in meta-comedy A self-reflexive indie comedy for the COVID-19 era, Wes Schlagenhauf is Dying fails to amuse or entertain.
& Categories Festivals Movies Reviews Sundance 2021 February 14, 2022 “The Cursed” lacks bark and bite Sean Ellis' werewolf period piece is a humorless medley of conflicting approaches that somehow ends up dull.
T Categories Features January 7, 2022 The best movie of 2021 was any you got to see in a theater On a year that let us come back to the theaters, and what that meant for the movies we saw.
& Categories Festivals Movies SXSW 2020 November 15, 2021 “Once Upon a Time In Uganda” shows off Wakaliwood’s delirious DIY filmmaking Cathryne Czubek & Hugo Perez's endearing doc about Ugandan filmmaking group Wakaliwood is both accessible and specific.