Review: Spotlight
It starts off with a single priest. It ends with allegations against 87 abusive priests. That is in Boston alone. Spotlight, the...
Review: The Big Short
"It's like 2 + 2 = fish." That effectively sums up the 2008 global financial crisis, the inner workings of which defy easy understanding....
Review: Burnt
Adam Jones (Bradley Cooper) stops dead in his tracks at the sight of former flame Anne Marie. And why not? Anne Marie is played by the...
Review: Brooklyn
Based on Colm Tóibín's 2009 novel about a young Irish immigrant torn between two countries and two loves, Brooklyn is a luminous and...
Review: Trumbo
"I've got nobody else to be. I did what I had to do." The words are spoken by actor Edward G. Robinson (Michael Stuhlbarg), but they...
Review: Joy
What to make of Joy, a work in which director David O. Russell buries a very good film under a mountain of nonsense and a maelstrom of...
Review: The Girl in the Book
The girl is Alice (Emily VanCamp), an editorial assistant at a New York publishing house. She is a writer, though her aspirations seem...
Review: Suffragette
On June 4, 1913, Emily Wilding Davison suffered fatal injuries after stepping out in front of King George V's horse at the Epsom Derby. A...
Review: Concussion
Clear in its intentions but confused in its execution, Concussion attempts to marry a whistleblower's exposé of a multi-billion dollar...
Review: Mojave
Pretentious and overlong at 93 minutes, Mojave has the near saving grace of Oscar Isaac, whose gleefully unhinged performance makes the...
