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...
Holiday Movie Preview
We have to start this piece with Netflix. The streaming company has major awards contenders out this season that we may not have the...
Queen & Slim: Ride or Die
Many films depend on a what-if scenario, and the one behind Queen & Slim is a good one. We’ve heard so many stories about...
Knives Out: Blanc Space
On the one hand, I wish Rian Johnson were directing the new Star Wars installment after the job he did on The Last Jedi....