‘Pieces of a Woman’ Opens Strong Before Turning Into Meandering Melodrama
Vanessa Kirby Gives Career-Best Performance in Tale of Grief Miscarriage is an awful thing for anyone to suffer. With their latest film Pieces of a Woman, Hungarian director Kornél…
Space Adventure Feels Stuck on the Ground: The Midnight Sky Review
Director George Clooney wants The Midnight Sky to be an intellectual science fiction adventure, a space opera that warns us of the consequences of neglecting our own planet in the…
Hidden Gem on Netflix? His House Review
His House is a 2020 Netflix original movie about a South Sudan couple seeking asylum in England. They quickly learn the house they’ve been given is haunted by the…
For the Love of Film: Mank Review
Citizen Kane is considered one of the greatest films of all time. To some, it is the greatest. Mank, director David Fincher’s eleventh film and first since 2014’s Gone Girl, tells the…
The Mother of the Blues and Her Band: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Review
The fact that Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is host to Chadwick Boseman’s final performance makes the film significant, but the other working parts of this adaptation of the late August…
All Rise: The Trial of the Chicago 7 Review
A zippy courtroom drama, The Trial of the Chicago 7 is one of the first major Oscar contenders of 2020. Written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, who is fresh off a Broadway adaptation…
Sinful Storytelling: The Devil All the Time Review
The Devil All the Time is a meandering, Southern Gothic tale that plays with themes of religious devotion and manipulation, violence, grief, and revenge among other things, but suffers…
Best Movie of 2020? I’m Thinking of Ending Things Review
I’m Thinking of Ending Things is an especially bleak “road trip” movie. It’s a high-brow, dialogue-driven puzzle, an exploration of the subconscious, and leads us to question reality and…
The Newest Spike Lee Joint: Da 5 Bloods Review
As the pandemic continues to shut down theaters and delay major film releases across the world, Netflix decides to appease our appetites for worthwhile filmmaking with a new…
Australian John Wick? Extraction Review
Looking for an explosive action movie to help get you through quarantine? You’re in luck, as Netflix’s Extraction might be the closest thing to Call of Duty: The Movie we get. Based on…
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