Film Reviews
América is an empathetic, heartening documentary, painfully true in its depiction of the hardships arising from family members caring for an elder who’s losing her grip on their and her own identity.
There’s a refreshing nature in Wild Nights With Emily to how Madeleine Olnek gives Dickinson a certain dignity while embracing her truths that were buried in her work.
Game of Thrones spent so much time drumming up the battle with the Dead, that everything that comes after will be second fiddle in intensity and importance.
Lee Chang-dong’s masterful Burning is a pot of luscious ambiguity that has us pining for answers.
Top End Wedding is filled with all the romcom tropes and cliches you expect, but Wayne Blair’s film manages to sell this spin on the formula.
As with the girls at the center of this story, At the Heart of Gold is a documentary that people need to see, and to understand.
Wunderkind has solid ideas and the potential to be a potent political satire, yet it falls into the same trappings as previous episodes in the sense that its message is too obvious.
A rare superhero movie that highlights the ordinary alongside the extraordinary, Fast Color is a bold and breathtaking spin on the genre that deserves to be seen as widely as any movie released under the Marvel banner.
Watson is a vital showcase of the power a person can have to affect change and how far reaching that change can be to others.
The story of the underdog will always be a crowd-pleaser. An unknown phoenix yearning to…
While it feels a bit unfinished and undercooked, If The Dancer Dances is a great start in unpacking everything that Merce Cunningham represented.
Arlin Golden covers many of the great documentaries that played at this year’s San Francisco International Film Festival.
With the season finale of Riverdale just around the corner, and with so many balls in the air, it is impossible to predict where they will all land.
Although it’s not exactly faultless, Someone Great adequately captures themes of lost love and the power of friendship.
With horror movie clichés lurking around every corner and a script that’s difficult to digest, The Curse of La Llorona will likely meet the void where bad horror flicks go to be forgotten.