REVIEW: Hearts Beat Loud (2018) dir. Brett Haley
Ugh, you know, sometimes we just need to feel GOOD. And right now, especially, good is not an easy thing to feel–it’s…
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REVIEW: Zama (2017) dir. Lucrecia Martel
“I do for you what no one did for me: I say no to your hopes.” Something is rotting in the (excellent,…
REVIEW: Incredibles 2 (2018) dir. Brad Bird
After fourteen years of leaps in animation and mainstream superhero movie saturation, Pixar’s Incredibles 2 has finally arrived. The sequel to…
REVIEW: Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018) dir. Morgan Neville
One of the best parts of Morgan Neville’s Won’t You Be My Neighbor? comes from Nick Tallo, the former floor manager on…
REVIEW: Hereditary (2018) dir. Ari Aster
You’ve heard it before: “This is the scariest movie since The Exorcist!” “Best horror movie in years, maybe ever!” “A new horror…
REVIEW: How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017) dir. John Cameron Mitchell
How to Talk to Girls at Parties isn’t quite about either girls or parties. Set in Croydon, England, in 1977, it follows…
REVIEW: Personal Problems (1980) dir. Bill Gunn
An unearthed treasure.
REVIEW: First Reformed (2017) dir. Paul Schrader
In the closing chapters of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, his essential 1998 celebration/indictment of the 1970s’ “New Hollywood” generation, film journalist Peter…
REVIEW: Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
The mundane becomes divine.
REVIEW: Lu Over the Wall (2018) dir. Masaaki Yuasa
My first foray into writing about movies was under a pseudonym. I’m not even sure anymore the reasoning behind that decision. Perhaps…
REVIEW: Disobedience (2018) dir. Sebastián Lelio
A Passionate Rachel Weisz Performance Can’t Overcome Disobedience’s Melodrama Fresh off his Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for A Fantastic Woman, Sebastián…
REVIEW: RBG (2018) dir. Betsy West & Julie Cohen
I’ve had the RBG premiere date in my calendar since the moment I watched the trailer. The tiny, eighty-five-year-old Supreme Court Justice…
