July - 2017

Review: Everything, Everything

Movies about the beautiful dying girl finding love are modern-day fairy tales. Never mind that death is around the corner, a girl's happy...

The plot of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets goes something like this: an unnamed paradise planet populated by the iridescent,...

Romantic comedies traffic in conflict. It's not necessarily the will they or won't they, but rather how will they despite all the reasons...

"Who hasn't had the impulse to put life on hold for a moment?" says Howard Wakefield (Bryan Cranston). Impulse yes, but very rarely the...

Simplicity is often the most difficult achievement. There's nowhere to hide - every element must be unimpeachable. Christopher Nolan...

Distilling a life into two hours is no easy task. Cover the milestones and a biographical film comes off as by-the-numbers and lacking in...

Shot over a period of less than a month with an all-female production crew, the Canadian erotic drama Below Her Mouth offers an abundance...

When we first meet Ellen (Lily Collins) in writer-director Marti Noxon's semi-autobiographical To the Bone, she's tossing some pretty...

Something is woefully amiss in A Quiet Passion, writer-director Terence Davies' meticulously crafted portrait of Emily Dickinson,...

A lovely little gem of a film, Paris Can Wait marks the directorial feature film debut of eighty-year-old Eleanor Coppola, the wife and...