Bill Nighy

Film Review: “Living” — Ode to Joy

March 11, 2023
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Featuring a transcendent performance by Bill Nighy, Living inspires viewers to look inward, and then outward, gently begging us to muster whatever power we have to seize the day.

Film Review: “The Bookshop” — A Closed Book

September 1, 2018
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Reading is treated as a commodity, namedropping literary titles as a way for middlebrow film audiences to feel proud of themselves for being in the know.

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