Drama

2 days ago
3 min

Passing ★★★

"Passing" is a small, contained, slow-paced, well-acted film--a compelling portrait of two black women reconsidering their lives.

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Jan 13
4 min

The Lost Daughter ★★★1/2

Gyllenhaal’s nuanced, thoughtful, quirky, sometimes surprising, and carefully constructed screenplay brings these performances together.

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Jan 9
4 min

Belfast ★★★

"Belfast" is well-edited, nicely acted, sweetly nostalgic. But it does not rise enough above the young boy’s memory to deal with conflict.

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Dec 30, 2021
4 min

tick, tick…BOOM! ★★★1/2

In a superb piece of film making, Miranda creatively moves a straightforward one-man performance onto film, exploiting that medium.

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Dec 13, 2021
3 min

The Power of the Dog ★★★1/2

Campion exploits expectations, shifting emotions from tension produced by a malevolence to a profound sadness about a life lived badly.

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Dec 7, 2021
3 min

Pig ★★★1/2

In a time of pig movies and in a tradition of food films, "Pig" holds its own with a fine script and a riveting performance by Nicholas Cage

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Nov 27, 2021
4 min

The French Dispatch ★★★

Wes Anderson pulls out all the stops in this love letter to, or, more aptly, obituary for, print journalism.

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Nov 11, 2021
4 min

The Souvenir (Part One) ★★1/2

Entertaining because of its two principals and their fine acting, but ultimately disappointing in its failure to produce dramatic issues.

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Oct 31, 2021
4 min

Dune ★★1/2

Moderately entertaining in its combat and action scenes, "Dune's" collection of earnest individuals cannot bring this desert saga to life.

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Oct 24, 2021
3 min

Black Bear ★★★

It's an exceedingly clever film with a compelling conceit and emotive punch; “life imitates art” performed before our eyes. Maybe too clever

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Oct 14, 2021
5 min

No Time to Die ★★1/2

The screenplay for “No Time to Die” is deeply flawed in its efforts to explain the origins of evil.

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Oct 2, 2021
4 min

No Sudden Move ★★1/2

Its quirky elements and its tense moments are not enough to save the film from being just another noir movie - hardly a "thriller."

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Sep 23, 2021
5 min

Quo Vadis, Aida? ★★★

The film resonates today, as one sees masses of Bosnians stranded outside and pressing against the fences of the UN base.

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Sep 7, 2021
4 min

Shiva Baby ★★1/2

Sennott’s performance carries the film, and it nearly succeeds in overcoming string of stereotypes and a plot that's weak and insufficient.

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Aug 15, 2021
3 min

The Green Knight ★★★

Award-winning writer and director David Lowery has created a deeply flawed protagonist, a modern Hamlet without introspection.

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Aug 6, 2021
4 min

White on White ("Blanco en Blanco") ★★★

This bleak tale is an example of didactic, post-colonial cinema, a horrific but essential take on Anglo genocide. And it's more than that.

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Jul 12, 2021
3 min

Zola ★★★

It's too early to anoint director (and co-writer) Janicza Bravo as the next Tarantino, but most of that director’s ingredients are here.

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Jun 26, 2021
4 min

In the Heights ★★★

Plain stories and two-dimensional characters are common to musicals; one expects the uncommon, creative mind behind “Hamilton” to go farther

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Jun 17, 2021
3 min

Riders of Justice ★★★1/2

"Riders” is a riff on causation, using our deep belief in the revenge trope and causation to lure us in. But comedy prevails.

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Jun 9, 2021
4 min

A Quiet Place Part II ★★★

With its notable withholding of blood and gore, “A Quiet Place Part II” is family fare—one might say “horror-lite.”

Passing

The Lost Daughter

Belfast

tick, tick...BOOM!

The Power of the Dog

Pig

The French Dispatch

Bad Attitude: The Art of Spain Rodriguez

The Souvenir (Part One)

Dune

Black Bear

No Time to Die

Acasă, My Home (“Acasă”)

No Sudden Move

Quo Vadis, Aida?

Shiva Baby

The Green Knight

White on White

The Truffle Hunters

Zola

In the Heights

Riders of Justice

A Quiet Place Part II

There Is No Evil

Syndrome K

The Forty-Year-Old Version

Judas and the Black Messiah

Crip Camp

The Father

Promising Young Woman

News of the World

Nomadland

Minari

Another Round ("Druk")

Some Kind of Heaven

The White Tiger

One Night in Miami

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Mangrove

Mank

You Never Had It: An Evening with Bukowski

The True Adventures of Wolfboy

The Vast of Night

Martin Eden

Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful

The Wild Goose Lake

Cuties ("Mignonnes")

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

The Assistant

Palm Springs

Sorry We Missed You

The Painted Bird

The Truth

Bacurau

Da 5 Bloods

Beanpole

Tommaso

L'Innocente ("The Innocent")

The Painter and the Thief

Bad Education

Until the Birds Return

The Two Popes

The Lighthouse

Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Midsommar

Ford v Ferrari

American Factory

First Cow

Seberg

Ordinary Love

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

The Traitor/Il Traditore

Uncut Gems

Les Misérables

The Last Black Man in San Francisco

Bombshell

1917

Knives Out

Little Women

Marriage Story

Queen & Slim

The Irishman

Cold Brook

Jojo Rabbit

Parasite

Joker

Ad Astra

Pain and Glory

First Love

Downton Abbey

Monos

The Goldfinch

Late Night

Good Boys

The Farewell

Yesterday

Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood

They Shall Not Grow Old

Toy Story 4

Bad Times at the El Royale

Bob Wilson's Life and
Death of Marina
Abramovic

The Sisters Brothers

Gloria Bell

Us

Won't You Be My
Neighbor

Never Look Away

Capernaum

Everybody Knows

Shoplifters

Three Identical Strangers

Minding the Gap

Cold War

The Favourite

Creed II

If Beale Street Could Talk

Roma

Can You Ever Forgive Me

Green Book

The House with a Clock in its Walls

Wildlife

The Kindergarten Teacher

Free Solo

A Star is Born

Museo

Eighth Grade

BlacKkKlansman

Sorry to Bother You

A Ciambra

The First Purge

Piazza Vittorio

Loro 1

My Cousin Rachel

Black Panther

Marshall

Call Me By Your Name

I, Tonya

Mudbound

The Darkest Hour

The Post

The Shape of Water

Indiscretion of an American Wife (Stazione Termini)

Downsizing

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

INTERVIEW with "Blade Runner" Screenwriter Hampton Fancher

Lady Bird

Rome Adventure

Last Flag Flying

Mother!

Blade Runner 2049

Logan Lucky

Wonder Woman

Dunkirk

The Beguiled

Berlin Syndrome

Facing Windows

Baby Driver

Personal Shopper

INTERVIEW with "John Wick" Screenwriter Derek Kolstad

I Am Not Your Negro

Sing

Get Out

The Salesman

Toni Erdmann

Hacksaw Ridge

Hidden Figures

Fences

Arrival

Elle

Lion

La La Land

Hell or High Water

Manchester by the Sea

Moonlight

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Doctor Strange

Florence Foster Jenkins

Demon

Mia Madre

Indignation

Captain Fantastic

Weiner

2 FILM CRITICS

Bill and Dianne's Excellent Adventure

Reviewing Films, Together

Passing ★★★

The Lost Daughter ★★★1/2

Belfast ★★★

tick, tick…BOOM! ★★★1/2

The Power of the Dog ★★★1/2

Pig ★★★1/2

The French Dispatch ★★★

The Souvenir (Part One) ★★1/2

Dune ★★1/2

Black Bear ★★★

No Time to Die ★★1/2

No Sudden Move ★★1/2

Quo Vadis, Aida? ★★★

Shiva Baby ★★1/2

The Green Knight ★★★

White on White ("Blanco en Blanco") ★★★

Zola ★★★

In the Heights ★★★

Riders of Justice ★★★1/2

A Quiet Place Part II ★★★

4 STARS

Passing ★★★

The Lost Daughter ★★★1/2

Belfast ★★★

tick, tick…BOOM! ★★★1/2

The Power of the Dog ★★★1/2

Pig ★★★1/2

The French Dispatch ★★★

The Souvenir (Part One) ★★1/2

Dune ★★1/2

Black Bear ★★★

No Time to Die ★★1/2

No Sudden Move ★★1/2

Quo Vadis, Aida? ★★★

Shiva Baby ★★1/2

The Green Knight ★★★

White on White ("Blanco en Blanco") ★★★

Zola ★★★

In the Heights ★★★

Riders of Justice ★★★1/2

A Quiet Place Part II ★★★

4 STARS

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