BLAME Is An Impressive Debut for Some Fresh Voices
BLAME tackles some tricky subject matters with nuance and emotion. It’s a strong, if messy, debut film from Quinn Shephard.
SECURITY gets gravitas from two powerful leads
SECURITY gives Antonio Banderas his shot at the ‘weathered old man’ action genre. How does this action icon fare?
BPM (Beats Per Minute) Finds Passion in Protest
BPM (Beats Per Minute) is a timely and vital look back as the wave of LGBT Rights protests in the 80s and 90s, paired with deeply felt personal drama.
LUCKY Is A Memorable Exit For An American Icon
Harry Dean Stanton is an icon among character actors. It is fitting that LUCKY gave him a chance to shine as a leading man before his death.
THE HONOR FARM Is A Hallucinatory Coming-of-Age Story
The Honor Farm looks like a horror movie, but what it actually ends up being is a surprisingly sweet coming-of-age story in spooky clothes.
GERALD’S GAME Is Netflix’s Finest Thriller
If you had asked me before I saw this, I would have named GERALD’S GAME as an unadaptable story. Mike Flanagan has proved me wrong.
COLUMBUS Finds Inspiration In Everyday Life
COLUMBUS is a heartfelt drama about family, loss, and the future. As a debut film from essayist Kogonada, it is a small miracle.
INGRID GOES WEST, Ingrid Goes Wrong
INGRID GOES WEST is a biting satire of social media influencer culture with a killer cast. So why doesn’t it quite come together?
LADY MACBETH Is A Bleak Portrait of Privilege and Power
LADY MACBETH is a sophisticated picture of race, gender, and power, in the form of a melodrama set in 19th century Scotland.
Do You Have Superhero Movie Fatigue?
You don’t have superhero movie fatigue. You have superfranchise fatigue. The modern franchise is enormous, unwieldy — and too big to fail.
ATOMIC BLONDE Is Beautiful, Brutal, and Brainless
ATOMIC BLONDE attempts to recreate the JOHN WICK magic with Charlize Theron in the lead. Can David Lietch make lightning strike twice?
LOST IN PARIS: A CIFF Review
LOST IN PARIS is an irrepressibly charming French comedy. Do not sleep on Fiona Gordon and Dominique Abel’s delightfully unhinged farce.
THE COMMUNE: A CIFF Review
The Cleveland International Film Festival brought us the newest film from Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg. How does The Commune hold up?
IRON FIST and the Marvel/Netflix Monotone
The Marvel/Netflix partnership hasn’t produced a truly great show yet, but in IRON FIST, it found its first truly abysmal one.
MY LIFE AS A COURGETTE is bleak, beautiful, and sweet
MY LIFE AS A COURGETTE, a French animated film nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Academy Awards, is a potent mixture of sad and sweet.