Drama

2 days ago
3 min

God’s Country ★★★

A Louisianan confronts 2 hunters trespassing on her property in a remote canyon in Montana; an event leading to an enigmatic, tragic ending.

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Sep 15
4 min

Barbarian ★★1/2

"Barbarian" succeeds by taking the genre seriously, while offering enough in the way of ideas and humor to allow an anxious viewer to relax.

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Sep 2
4 min

Funny Pages ★★★1/2

A creative dive into a young adult’s zeal for life, Kline's film is highly entertaining, totally unpredictable, and invariably engrossing.

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Aug 23
4 min

Resurrection ★★★

“Resurrection” manages to marry a powerful, tension-filled, “psychological thriller” with a rich analytic feast. If one can stomach it.

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Babardeala cu bucluc sau porno balamuc)★★1/2

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Aug 12
4 min

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Babardeala cu bucluc sau porno balamuc)★★1/2

Hypocrisy in your face, bawdy sex farce, and excess - if appealing, this Romanian alt-cinema prize-winner may be for you.

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Aug 3
5 min

Nope ★★★

It's a messy film, an entertaining mixture of genres that don't cohere with an amateurish sci-fi component, yet it's unfailingly interesting

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Jul 27
3 min

Cha Cha Real Smooth ★★1/2

Upending of the usual rom-com arc, decent acting, and some clever writing make one want to cheer a film that teeters on the edge of treacle.

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Jul 15
4 min

Kimi ★★★

A return to Soderbergh's roots, exploring contemporary technology - and sexual assault - with a powerful performance by Zoë Kravitz.

Everything Everywhere All At Once ★★★1/2

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Jun 29
4 min

Everything Everywhere All At Once ★★★1/2

The first 45 minutes may leave all but the most experienced virtual reality gamer reeling & confused. Then the human story begins to unfold.

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Jun 20
4 min

Mass ★★★1/2

It's hard to imagine a better, more powerful, more complex, and more daring presentation of “the problem” than “Mass.”

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Jun 10
4 min

The Outfit ★★★

This unusual mystery is dominated by mental antics, mostly in the words of Mark Rylance, resulting in a riveting, tension-filled film.

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Jun 1
5 min

Top Gun: Maverick ★★★

This is an action film, dominated by men, by machines, by nostalgia, by Tom Cruise's satisfying performance. On that level, it's superb.

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May 26
3 min

A Chiara ★★★

In his "Nancy-Drew-meets-the-Mafia film," Carpignano draws a narrative from the fun-loving, sometimes mean-girl teen to a sadly wise adult,

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May 16
4 min

Happening (L'Événement) ★★★1/2

This is an honest, unflinching look at what it meant for young women of a certain social class, without resources, to obtain an abortion.

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May 3
3 min

The Northman ★★

A retelling of the Danish story on which "Hamlet" is based, Eggers' blood-and-gore Viking film reduces the hero to his fate: pure revenge.

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Apr 15
5 min

King Richard ★★★

By effacing the role of the sisters, “King Richard” simplifies what should be complex: the ingredients of every extraordinary achievement.

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Apr 10
3 min

A Hero (Ghahreman) ★★★

On its face, “A Hero" asks us to take the measure of this man, but Director Farhadi seems instead to be taking the measure of the society.

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Mar 31
5 min

CODA ★★★

The outpouring of emotion that this feel-good film induces comes at a cost: a script that is manipulative and predictable.

Parallel Mothers (Madres paraleles) ★★1/2

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Mar 15
4 min

Parallel Mothers (Madres paraleles) ★★1/2

Neither solid acting from main characters, nor the attempt to lend historical depth, can save this film from being a predictable melodrama

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Mar 7
4 min

Nightmare Alley ★★1/2

A tension-filled, slow-paced, too-long film, it's rescued from mediocrity by Cooper’s intense performance and exceptional production design.

God's Country

Barbarian

Funny Pages

Resurrection

Bad Luck Banging

Nope

Cha Cha Real Smooth

Kimi

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Mass

The Outfit

Top Gun: Maverick

A Chiara

Happening (L'Événement)

The Northman

King Richard

A Hero (Ghahreman)

CODA

Flee (Flugt)

Parallel Mothers (Madres paraleles)

Nightmare Alley

The Worst Person in the World

Drive My Car

Spencer

Licorice Pizza

Petite Maman

INTERVIEW with Warren Beatty’s Reds historical consultant, Robert A. Rosenstone

Bergman Island

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

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Bill and Dianne's Excellent Adventure

Reviewing Films, Together

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