film reviews
Takashi Yamazaki goes bigger, darker, and more explicitly anti-American in a sequel whose jaw-dropping destruction outmuscles its uneven human drama.
Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård are an odd but irresistible couple in a darkly funny fable about marriage, passion, and the scandal of a husband devoted to his wife.
At the Boston Jewish Film Festival, three films follow women who persist in the face of prejudice, buried secrets, and unjust laws.
John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell skillfully ladle on the caustic comedy, but Martin McDonagh’s latest leaves the moral wreckage of American imperialism largely unexplored.
An enchanted forest, a stolen child, and a battle for survival: Travis Knight’s “Wildwood” is as emotionally rich as it is visually dazzling.
A selkie romance, a dubious life coach, and three couples in crisis: love takes some strange turns at this year’s Woodstock Film Festival.
A brutally nasty Gotham revenge tale turns a minor Batman villain into the stuff of a major body-horror surprise.
A filmmaker’s interest in a laid-off worker draws two couples into an intimate, uneasy tangle of money, power, and desire.
By Neil Giordano A stellar Rosalind Eleazar anchors this sour Hollywood parable, but Chris Rock’s performance and an overstuffed screenplay undermine its bite. Misty Green, written and directed by Chris Rock. Screening at AMC Boston Common 19, Landmark Kendall Square, Alamo Drafthouse Seaport, and AMC Causeway. Depending on your age, you may know Chris Rock…
Ed Perkins’s documentary finds a fascinating story in America’s 2016 creepy-clown craze, then buries it beneath sweeping analogies and frantic editing.
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