biography
Dan Curtis was a fascinating and talented filmmaker, and Master of Dark Shadows helps fill an information void where he’s concerned.
For a director obsessed with the decadence of Italy’s most powerful, Loro feels like the film Paolo Sorrentino was born to make.
A promising start quickly descends into troubling formula in The Best of Enemies, wasting two excellent lead performances and a potentially interesting story.
The Brink is a well-constructed documentary that offers a lucid view of how the Breitbart founder thinks and operates.
The White Crow boasts an excellent lead performance from Oleg Ivenko, but the central character remains cold and distant throughout.
While, Lincoln does shatter the stereotypical image we have of President Lincoln, it also adopts a worshipful attitude that undercuts its attempts to make him look like a human being.
Between last year’s successful Bohemian Rhapsody and the upcoming Rocketman, music biopics seem to be all the current rage in Hollywood.
When it comes down to it, you’ve seen this type of movie before, but rarely with this setting and with people from this part of the world.
All Is True fails to really justify itself: it’s a patchwork of ideas that never really coalesces confidently.
On the Basis of Sex is not likely to plant the seed of determination in the next RBG, as they don’t need pop feminist representations of even the most laudable of figures.
Brexit: The Uncivil War tells you nothing you wouldn’t already know from almost three years of news coverage and counting.
Carried by the weight of Willem Dafoe’s performance, At Eternity’s Gate is not a bad film, but it is not an outstanding one either.
Mary Queen of Scots has no shortage of talent in front of the camera to make it one of this year’s most overlooked but satisfactory films.
The Story of Roger Ailes may be straightforward and a bit lacking in stylistic direction, but it’s a rather necessary look at one man’s life to help understand today’s politics.
Welcome to Marwen is an unfortunately shallow endeavor, with trite dialogue and a saccahrine portrait of very serious issues.
