‘Certain Women’ Review: Small Stories, Impressive Imp
Short stories often suit feature film adaptation better than novels. In ‘Certain Women’, the perpetually underrated Kelly Reichardt (‘Wendy and Lucy’, ‘Meek’s Cutoff’) takes three achingly...
Short stories often suit feature film adaptation better than novels. In ‘Certain Women’, the perpetually underrated Kelly Reichardt (‘Wendy and Lucy’, ‘Meek’s Cutoff’) takes three achingly...
‘The Lovers’ is a strange and possibly ironically titled bleak comedy about marital discontent. It takes a premise that feels quite familiar and twists it in such a strange fashion that it comes off as romantic in the ...
Movie date night became a safer place once Nicholas Sparks’ reign of terror finally came to an end last year. Sadly, even with Sparks gone, Hollywood will peddle soft-focus hokum with tragic finales as long as couples like t...
‘Prometheus’, Ridley Scott’s return to the ‘Alien’ franchise, was supposed to reignite excitement and deepen the series’ mythology. Instead, it was beautiful to look at but stumbled through fail...
Most horror movies, no matter how harrowing, tend to at least let viewers off the hook through some measure of genre fantasy. Some, like ‘Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer’ or ‘Hounds of Love’, are darker ...
‘Bon Cop Bad Cop’ felt like a dated relic in 2006. Now 11 years later, the sequel delivers the leftover scrapings of a relic, a sequel that will please only the most nostalgic of gas station DVD dumpster divers and a m...
Three years ago, Laura Poitras released the Edward Snowden documentary ‘Citizenfour‘ to great acclaim. It was a true-life thriller that couldn’t be more potent or relevant. Now she returns with a portrait of noto...
Every now and then (usually about once per decade), Hollywood decides that the time is right for a King Arthur tale and audiences respond with a firm “No thank you.” The last time was in 2004 when Antoine Fuqua and Cli...
There isn’t much competition for the title of “the great golf movie,” so earnestly attempting that feat without Bob Barker, Bill Murray or a kneeling Tim Conway in sight is enough for ‘Tommy’s Honour&...
What’s funnier than mother/daughter bonding and bickering? According to ‘Snatched’, almost nothing! That’s especially true if this wacky mother/daughter combo find themselves kidnapped and fighting through ...
‘The Wall’ is a movie that exists mostly as a directorial challenge. Is it possible to make a pulse-pounding war thriller out of a single location and three characters? That’s the type of task that got Doug Liman...
Sarah Adina Smith’s second feature, ‘Buster’s Mal Heart’, appears to be many things over the course of its running time. Carefully constructed as a non-chronological, reality-bending mind-buster, the film d...