Best Documentaries of ’19
What’s the deal with documentaries made up only of found footage? Apollo 11 and Amazing Grace have been on a great many lists of...
1917: One Shot
Sam Mendes’ war films like Jarhead and the current 1917 have tried to replicate the visceral thrill and horror of combat without glorifying it....
In Fabric: Killer Outfit
There’s no getting around this: In Fabric is about a dress that kills everyone who wears it. Much like Quentin Dupieux’s Rubber (which is...
The Top 10
I have achieved gender parity! Look at the list below, and you’ll find five movies directed by men and five directed by women. On...
Little Women: Forward March
We now have five Hollywood feature film adaptations of Little Women stretching back to 1933, to say nothing of other media that include a...
Uncut Gems: Howard’s End
Sometimes, it’s really fun to be the guy saying that the Christmas movie riding a wave of positive buzz is terrible. Uncut Gems is...
Bombshell: What Ailes You
In last year’s documentary Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes, Glenn Beck, of all people, shared a story about what the Fox...
Star Wars: Rey of Hope
The Star Wars series doesn’t really end, but given the elegant decision to tell this epic in chunks of three movies, Star Wars: The...
Waves: Crests and Troughs
This Christmas season is just lousy with good movies that find the depth and breadth of human life in the story of one family....
Aeronauts: Up Where We Belong
Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones teamed up once before in The Theory of Everything, for which he won an Oscar and she got a...
