Jennifer Lawrence

Film Review: “Don’t Look Up” — A Pitch-Dark Satire that Dares to be Impudently Pessimistic

January 4, 2022
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The knee-jerk, hateful reviews of Don’t Look Up possess comments so outsized, and so beside the point, that they bear a resemblance to the oblivious thinking of the movie’s anti-science ostriches.

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Film Review: “Red Sparrow” — A Retro Cold War thriller

March 23, 2018
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Red Sparrow isn’t great in any way, but, at two hours and twenty minutes, we do get our money’s worth of old-school genre entertainment.

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Film Review: Hell is Other People — Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!”

September 16, 2017
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Chaos threatens to usurp the plot, but Jennifer Lawrence’s luminous performance keeps the story, such as it is, moving along.

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Film Review: “mother!” — Welcome to the Pagan Cult of the Eye

September 15, 2017
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No doubt many will find director Darren Aronofsky’s transgressive vision overwrought, but the film is undeniably powerful.

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Film Review: “Joy” and “The Danish Girl” — Gratification Limited

December 26, 2015
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The unimportance of being too earnest.

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Fuse Film Review: The “Hunger Games” Sequel — Better Than The First Time Around

November 22, 2013
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Jennifer Lawrence has blossomed into a charismatic screen presence in her gala return as Katniss, the beloved bow-and-arrow heroine of “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.”

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