January - 2017 3/3

Review: Moonlight

An extraordinary film that instantly and irrevocably marks itself as essential viewing, Moonlight is a transfixing portrait of black...

Another month, another James Franco film. The inexhaustibly ubiquitous actor lends his endearingly goofy charm to Why Him?, a sometimes...

If one took a shot for every time the line "What do you want from me?" was uttered in the sci-fi abduction thriller Rupture, then one...

Nothing exposes the cracks or accelerates the demise of a relationship more than marriage. Take writer-director Rafael Palacio...

The film adaptation of Ben Fountain's 2012 novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is solid if not particularly compelling. Its main...

A ramshackle hybrid of The French Connection and Starsky and Hutch (the film, not the television series), War on Everyone marks John...

A superb biopic that draws you in from its first moment and maintains its hold until the last frame, The Founder traces the rise and fall...

Though titled About Ray, British director Gaby Dellal's latest film often seems less about its title character than Maggie (Naomi Watts),...

There is many a devastating scene in Fences, the film adaptation of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. That many of them are...

There is a girl. Her name is Melanie. Every morning she wakes up in her dark prison of a room and gets in a manacled wheelchair. Every...