2filmcriticsDec 4, 20172 minLady Bird ★★1/2 An extraordinary Soarise Ronan is abandoned by Greta Gerwig’s witty but reckless script.
2filmcriticsNov 17, 20173 minLast Flag Flying ★★★ 1/2 "Last Flag Flying” wants to be an anti-war film but can’t help buying into today’s infatuation with the military.
2filmcriticsOct 20, 20173 minBlade Runner 2049 ★★★Poses the question about what it means to be human.
2filmcriticsSep 20, 20174 minLogan Lucky ★★The film engages in the 2016 political moment and appears to pander to Donald Trump’s rural, working-class base.
2filmcriticsAug 15, 20173 minDunkirk ★★★ 1/2 The story of confusion, of the innate drive for survival, of the futility of every safe haven.
2filmcriticsAug 3, 20172 minThe Beguiled ★★1/2 A Union army mercenary recuperates in a Virginia boarding school inhabited by Southern women and girls waiting out the Civil War.
2filmcriticsJul 22, 20173 minBerlin Syndrome ★★ 1/2 An ordinary victim and an apparently ordinary perpetrator, caught up in something odd, ugly, and potentially deadly.
2filmcriticsJul 19, 20172 minFacing Windows ★★The object of her illicit desire in the facing window is too good-looking and her husband too brutish.
2filmcriticsJul 18, 20172 minBaby Driver ★★1/2 Baby exudes a captivating, magnetic, balletic physical self-confidence.
2filmcriticsJun 10, 20176 minINTERVIEW with "John Wick" Screenwriter Derek KolstadDianne interviews the writer - and creator - of the "John Wick" films, a man whose fairy tale came true.
2filmcriticsMay 5, 20172 minSing ★★★1/2 A superb animated feature starrng a dozen perfectly sketched animals.
2filmcriticsApr 12, 20173 minGet Out ★★★ 1/2Not since “Rosemary’s Baby” has Hollywood captured so powerfully the revulsion of being betrayed by those we trust.
2filmcriticsMar 9, 20173 minThe Salesman ★★★1/2 Revenge is a Hollywood staple, but Iranian revenge is messier and less satisfying.
2filmcriticsFeb 24, 20172 minHacksaw Ridge ★★1/2 Mel Gibson’s values are stamped on the story throughout. Male bonding is paramount. Women are loving but stoic.
2filmcriticsFeb 23, 20172 minHidden Figures ★★★1/2 A superbly structured drama that vividly evokes a little-known aspect of the space race.