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TWISTERS: Maximum Escapism, Endless Charm, But Same Old Twists
TWISTERS: Maximum Escapism, Endless Charm, But Same Old Twists

While Twisters is pretty much exactly what you’d expect, it will warmly invite you into its merry world of meteorologists and storm chasers.

A Quiet Place Day One — source: Paramount Pictures
A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE: Michael Sarnoski Efficiently Tears Apart NYC

Forty-five years after Alien, cat people finally have a new horror movie with Michael Sarnoski’s “A Quiet Place: Day One.”

BANG BANG: Tim Blake Nelson's Opportunity To Shine
BANG BANG: Tim Blake Nelson’s Opportunity To Shine

Part boxing movie, part familial drama, Bang Bang is further proof of Vincent Grashaw’s directorial expertise and a showcase for Tim Blake Nelson’s talent.

VIVA: Barbi in VIVA-Land

Viva is told by an indie woman director whose mise-en-scene and script pay tribute to classic musicals.

LONGLEGS: A Cinematic Embodiment Of The Cruel And The Uncanny
LONGLEGS: A Cinematic Embodiment Of The Cruel And The Uncanny

Overall, Longlegs is well-directed, artistically apt, and really, really suspenseful.

The Circle Of Life: Why THE LION KING Still Resonates 30 Years Later
The Circle Of Life: Why THE LION KING Still Resonates 30 Years Later

When I think of epic and intimate storytelling in animation, I think of The Lion King (1994).

THELMA: A Moving Intergenerational Action Film Starring June Squibb

The prevailing refrain of Thelma is how it supersedes expectations in all manner of ways.

FAMILY PORTRAIT: A Family Under the Influence

Family Portrait captures the underlying sense of menace seeping into the monotony of everyday life that characterized the early days of the pandemic.

Away from the Hype: STAR WARS: EPISODE I - THE PHANTOM MENANCE 
Away from the Hype: STAR WARS: EPISODE I – THE PHANTOM MENANCE 

It has a lot of charm and it’s refreshing to see something playing by its own rules and not following a rigid formula.

Tribeca Film Festival 2024: BRATS: A Nostalgic Odyssey Back To The 1980s
Tribeca Film Festival 2024: BRATS: A Nostalgic Odyssey Back To The 1980s

Brats is a reminder old wounds can calcify and scab over turning into the foundation for something all the more beautiful.

Tribeca Film Festival 2024: CHAMPIONS OF THE GOLDEN VALLEY, BAM BAM: THE SISTER NANCY STORY & THE WEEKEND
Tribeca Film Festival 2024: CHAMPIONS OF THE GOLDEN VALLEY, BAM BAM: THE SISTER NANCY STORY & THE WEEKEND

From Tribeca Film Festival 2024, Soham Gadre takes a look at CHAMPIONS OF THE GOLDEN VALLEY, BAM BAM: THE SISTER NANCY STORY & THE WEEKEND!

CHILDREN IN WAR: A Documentary for Our Times
CHILDREN IN WAR: A Documentary for Our Times

Children in War contributes a clear-eyed, disciplined, and eloquently forceful rejection of every lie and excuse ever conjured for the justification of war.

BUTTERFLY IN THE SKY: Celebrating The Formative Power of Reading Rainbow and LeVar Burton
BUTTERFLY IN THE SKY: Celebrating The Formative Power of Reading Rainbow and LeVar Burton

Reading Rainbow cultivated an environment that was safe for kids and equally empowering — it engendered curiosity.

WILDCAT: The Hawkes Bring The Prickly Southern Writer To The Screen With Tender Loving Care
WILDCAT: The Hawkes Bring The Prickly Southern Writer To The Screen With Tender Loving Care

Wildcat becomes a lens through which to see beauty and empathize with one of our great American writers – and what a gift it is.

Cannes Film Festival 2024: MEGALOPOLIS
Cannes Film Festival 2024: MEGALOPOLIS

It’s truly difficult to qualify the beast of an experience that is Megalopolis, and because of that, there’s an undefinable elegance.