Review: King Lear
With its assured direction, engaging visuals, and featuring a murderers' row of British actors, the latest telling of Shakespeare's King...
Review: The Kindergarten Teacher
In The Kindergarten Teacher, Maggie Gyllenhaal plays Lisa Spinelli, a financially comfortable, fortysomething married woman with two...
Review: Bad Times at the El Royale
A man walks into a hotel room and buries a bag of money under the floorboards. Time passes, a knock on the door is heard, he opens the...
Review: First Man
"When you get a different vantage point, you get a different perspective," Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling) says in First Man, Damien...
Review: A Star is Born
There are tales - biblical, mythical, Shakespearean - that can be told over and over again and, with each telling, always have some sort...
Review: Venom
Venom, much like its (anti)hero, is a movie of two parts. The first is a standard origin story made engaging by the relative novelty of...
Review: London Fields
London Fields is arguably the best example of cinematic slog, not only in recent memory but quite possibly of all time. A migraine of a...
Review: Hold the Dark
Somewhere in a small Alaskan village named Keelut, there lives a young woman by the name of Medora Slone (Riley Keough). She has been...
Review: Izzy Gets the F**k Across Town
Izzy Gets the F**k Across Town, the debut feature of writer-director Christian Papierniak, is no doubt a showcase for the amazing...
Review: Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Reteaming with director Gus Van Sant 23 years after delivering a sit-up-and-take-notice performance in To Die For, Joaquin Phoenix stars...
