2filmcriticsNov 16, 20183 minWildlife ★★★ 1/2Family dinners go from elaborate Betty Crocker meals to canned food to eating out of cans.
2filmcriticsOct 26, 20181 minA Star is Born ★★★In an excessively maudlin penultimate scene, a dog whimpers outside a garage.
2filmcriticsOct 18, 20183 minMuseo ★★★ 1/2The bold, “Topkapi”-like theft has a deeper meaning than the desire for high-risk thrills.
2filmcriticsSep 8, 20183 minEighth Grade ★★★1/2Fourteen-year-0ld Elsie Fisher is Kayla Day in 'Eighth Grade,' Bo Burnham’s riveting first feature.
2filmcriticsSep 5, 20182 minBlacKkKlansman ★★★Lee reminds us that the KKK is as anti-Semitic as it is racist.
2filmcriticsAug 9, 20183 minSorry to Bother You ★★★To succeed as a black man you’ve got to act white: that’s one of the humiliations that mark this film.
2filmcriticsJul 30, 20182 minA Ciambra ★★★Exposes the dyads of an expanding world and tribalism, of self-identity and the group, of friendship and family.
2filmcriticsJul 15, 20183 min The First Purge ★★Like “Get Out!”, The First Purge offers a strong dose of “white people in power are evil.”
2filmcriticsMay 9, 20183 minLoro 1 ★★★In the film's second hour, Sorrentino's Berlusconi is more pathetic than crude.
2filmcriticsApr 16, 20184 minBlack Panther ★★★ 1/2 The film uses only black characters to present the varieties of moral choice
2filmcriticsMar 1, 20183 minCall Me by Your Name ★★★ 1/2 James Ivory’s erudite, spare, and character-appropriate screenplay is adapted from the novel by André Aciman.
2filmcriticsFeb 23, 20182 minI, Tonya ★★★1/2 Succeeds in elevating Harding to the status of a victim, maybe even a heroine.
2filmcriticsFeb 22, 20182 minMudbound ★★★1/2 “Mudbound” succeeds because of its highly literate script and gripping cinematography.
2filmcriticsFeb 20, 20182 minDarkest Hour ★★★1/2 Focuses on the psychological dimensions of a series of momentous decisions.
2filmcriticsFeb 11, 20182 minThe Post ★★★Assertive CEO willing to take on her white male advisors and to risk her new career.
2filmcriticsFeb 11, 20184 minThe Shape of Water ★★★ 1/2 The beauty and the beast — except that Elisa is no beauty and the creature is something other, and more, than a beast.
2filmcriticsFeb 10, 20182 minIndiscretion of an American Wife ★★1/2 (Stazione Termini) The moralistic social and legal system of the early 1950s cultivates shame, if only for women.
