2filmcriticsMay 1, 20203 minThe Two Popes ★★★Powerful performances by Anthony Hopkins Jonathan Pryce make it an entertaining film but one that skims the surface of moral issues.
2filmcriticsApr 22, 20203 minThe Lighthouse ★★★Will appeal to moviegoers who enjoy the intimacy and confinement of the setting--and who don’t mind a journey to the edge of horror.
2filmcriticsMar 30, 20204 minFord v Ferrari ★★★1/2 This historical drama of the individual and bureaucracy is as good as Hollywood gets, with multiple riveting races.
2filmcriticsMar 20, 20204 minAmerican Factory ★★★This 2019 Best Documentary, is the story—at its best—of a clash of cultures when the Chinese re-open an Ohio factory.
2filmcriticsFeb 6, 20204 minLes Miserables ★★★1/2 “Battle of Algiers” meets “Lord of the Flies.” Exciting, scary, tragic, riveting. Won Cannes Jury Prize; nominee Best International Feature
2filmcriticsJan 19, 20204 minBombshell ★★1/2 The 3 women in “Bombshell” should get an ensemble cast award—if the Oscars had one.The director, writer & editors should go back to school.
2filmcriticsApr 12, 20194 minUs ★★1/2Horror is the main course in "Us," which doesn't live up to Director Jordan Peele's promise in his remarkable 2017 "Get Out!"
2filmcriticsMar 16, 20193 minNever Look Away ★★★A compelling story inside this bloated, big budget indie.
2filmcriticsMar 7, 20192 minCapernaum ★★★★Social realism in one of 2018's best foreign films, set in Lebanon.
2filmcriticsFeb 20, 20192 minShoplifters ★★★ 1/2 The group has its pleasures, including crowding onto a tiny back porch to listen to fireworks they can’t see.
2filmcriticsFeb 12, 20192 minMinding the Gap ★★★ 1/2 The pleasures of speed and risk, and the flight from the emotional toll of rejection and abuse.
2filmcriticsFeb 5, 20193 minCold War ★★★ 1/2 Full of unexpected, and often inexplicable, or even perverse, twists and turns
2filmcriticsFeb 1, 20192 minThe Favourite ★★★ 1/2 If there were an Oscar for Best Ensemble, these three women would be “favourites.”
2filmcriticsJan 20, 20193 minIf Beale Street Could Talk ★★★ 1/2 Deploying Baldwin’s voice of anger and rage to vilify whites and the American system of justice.
2filmcriticsDec 18, 20183 minCan You Ever Forgive me? ★★★ Jack and Lee share a dislike of the elite; she stole one of their coats, he peed on their furs. Welcome to the buddy film
2filmcriticsDec 15, 20183 minGreen Book ★★★ 1/2 Tony’s community invokes the white tribalism that’s central to today’s contentious racist, anti-immigrant Trumpian political culture.
2filmcriticsOct 27, 20182 minFree Solo ★★★1/2 A classic introvert, but one who understands himself as an old-school warrior, scales El Capitan with only a bag of chalk.
2filmcriticsOct 26, 20181 minA Star is Born ★★★In an excessively maudlin penultimate scene, a dog whimpers outside a garage.
