

Review: Maudie
Sally Hawkins persuasively incarnates Maud Lewis, one of Canada's most well-known folk artists, in Aisling Walsh's Maudie. The optimism...


Review: Tulip Fever
One never knows why troubles alight upon one film and not another. In general, it never bodes well when a film's release is delayed...


Review: Logan Lucky
"Introducing Daniel Craig" went the credits for Logan Lucky's trailers. The billing may be cheeky but truthful. Even for those familiar...


Review: It Comes at Night
The film begins with a close-up of a man obviously riddled with a disease of some kind. His name is Bud and there is a figure beside him...


Review: The Beguiled
To beguile is to deceive or divert and The Beguiled, directed by Sofia Coppola from Thomas C. Pullman's 1966 novel and Don Siegel's 1971...


Review: The Lovers
Though set in present day and taking place in prosaic surroundings, Azazel Jacobs' The Lovers could just as easily been released in the...


Review: Unlocked
Recently there was not altogether improbable chatter positing Charlize Theron as a female James Bond. Partly this was due to her role as...


Review: What Happened to Monday
Silly but oh-so-effective, the sci-fi thriller What Happened to Monday stars Noomi Rapace as seven sisters whose very existence goes...


Review: Éternité (Eternity)
The Vietnamese-born French writer-director Tran Anh Hung burst onto the international scene in 1993 with The Scent of the Green Papaya,...


Review: Beatriz at Dinner
There's a sadness that reverberates through screenwriter Mike White and director Miguel Arteta's latest collaboration, Beatriz at Dinner....