NYFF Journal: The Irishman
With a running time of just under 3 ½ hours, I’m less time away from The Irishman writing this review than it took to watch the film, yet even in these moments following the first screening, it feels like if I’ve witne...
With a running time of just under 3 ½ hours, I’m less time away from The Irishman writing this review than it took to watch the film, yet even in these moments following the first screening, it feels like if I’ve witne...
When the creator of Mr. Robot adapts a popular serial fiction podcast into a TV series for Amazon Prime streaming, with a couple of Oscar winners in the cast and seemingly free reign to be as weird and experimental as he wants, th...
It’s inevitable that some 20 films into the Marvel Cinematic Universe things are starting to feel a bit rote. We know that between the big explosions of the ‘Avengers’ films, standalone works will move the pieces...
‘Daddy’s Home’ is a movie perfectly summed up by its poster. Will Ferrell is an uptight stepfather and Mark Wahlberg is his cool dad competition. You’ve probably already got a pretty good idea of where thin...
Ever since she stole ‘Bridesmaids’ away from a cast too good for that to be easy, Hollywood has struggled to find a movie worthy of Melissa McCarthy’s sudden stardom. After a bunch of financially successful but n...
As the title suggests, ‘Adult Beginners’ is another one of those comedies about theoretically grown-up humans who are still little kids inside – you know, the type of comedy that’s been cranked out regularly sinc...
For years, we’ve suffered the indignity of watching Robert De Niro attempt to redefine his career by committing to comedy rather than that “acting” thing he helped revolutionize. His forever linked contemporary A...
You know how hilarious it can be to watch grown-ass adults behave like children? Well, ‘Adult Beginners’ is another one of those movies. Thankfully, it’s also a pretty good one.