Film
Director Greta Gerwig’s brilliant cast succeed in making Little Women a feel-good escapist movie with brains.
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” –- Hamlet
Dark Waters may not be Todd Haynes’ most beautiful film, but it may yet prove to be among his most important.
Even with my caveats, A Hidden Life raises filmmaking to heights that will thrill Terrence Malick fans.
Though the story’s events are set in the present, the Gen X music feels right, coming as it does from an era when fear, decadence, and moral hypocrisy also dominated our culture.
There are few films these days that feel like such a familiar and sorely-needed balm for stressful times.
Waves is a plea for mutual understanding, for acts of grace that transcend race, age, gender, and social status.
For all its cinematic zest and superb acting, The Irishman offers a bleak demonstration of what happens when you sell your soul for too little.
At a time when Kenneth Branagh busies himself clogging up multiplexes with bombastic Agatha Christie all-star remakes, director/writer Rian Johnson revels in subversion of the genre.
What makes Marriage Story unbalanced and faintly dishonest is that we end up rooting for the clueless male egomaniac.
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