All and all, Good Manners is a flawed narrative with a good heart and powerful message at its core.
Amy Seimetz’s sophmore directorial effort is full of great performances, but never engages with the premise enough.
A high school transfer student finds a new passion when she begins to work on the school’s newspaper.
While the premise feels like a joke, Dog with a Blog proves to be not just eminently watchable but also genuinely wholesome and entertaining.
It is a fun zom-com, but if you aren’t desperately seeking out for a lighthearted zombie film, then it’s maybe not the first film you would come across.
Made in Italy is a fine film to cozy up to, as long as you can overlook the awkwardness and lack of narrative development it presents at times to audiences.
If there’s anyone who can turn something mundane into something magical, it’s director and writer…
In “The Gamesmaster: Almost Famous in the Geek ’80s”, Flint Dille charts his course from an aimless college grad to a successful writer of the boob tube and silver screen.
The film making is far from flawless, but what Ganja & Hess really projects is the sense that it came from a person who wanted the work to reflect himself.
Black Water: Abyss starts strong in its horror, but too quickly, the film devolves into a story of drama with a background of splashing water.
A squad of soldiers are on a daring mission to rescue hostages from their captors in remote Africa, when the mission goes awry.
Blake I. Collier takes a deep dive into the ways films explore dementia and turn it into a source of horror with varied results.
It is an unapologetically quirky indie with a big heart and some very valid points to make about the insidiousness of fascism.
If you’re looking for a light, breezy movie to tide you over for a couple hours, Summerland will hit the spot.
Our coverage of the 2020 Sheffield Doc/Fest’s continues with reviews of Shut Up Sona, The Go-Go’s and Bitter Butter.