Review: Ocean's Eight
There's a lot to love in Ocean's Eight, the all-female spinoff of Steven Soderbergh's Ocean trilogy, even if the film itself is overall...
Review: Please Stand By
In Please Stand By, Dakota Fanning plays Wendy, a young woman on the autism spectrum who is also a Star Trek aficionado. She lives in a...
Review: Brimstone
Brimstone, the first English-language film from Dutch director Martin Koolhoven, is a two-and-a-half-hour period drama that often plays...
Review: American Pastoral
Seymour "Swede" Levov would seem to have it all: he's a Greatest Generation Newark Jew with the blond, blue-eyed looks of a WASP, a...
Review: The Benefactor (aka Franny)
Wealth can be as insidious as addiction, and generosity can often be a bullying act. The Benefactor, originally titled Franny, stars...
Review: Every Secret Thing
One's interest doesn't just wander when watching Every Secret Thing, it flees with alacrity from the dreariness and banality....
Review: Effie Gray
The uncoupling of noted Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his wife Euphemia "Effie" Gray was quite the scandal of its time. Though...
Review: The Last of Robin Hood
By the time Errol Flynn met Beverly Aadland in 1957, his glory days as he swashbuckling Robin Hood were well behind him. He was still...