Review: Ophelia
"You may think you know my story," the titular character notes at the start of Ophelia, a reshaping of Shakespeare's classic Hamlet in...
Review: Vice
As he proved in his Oscar-winning The Big Short, which tracked how the financial crisis of 2007-2008 was caused by the United Sates...
Review: The Glass Castle
To call New York gossip columnist Jeanette Walls' upbringing conventional would be an understatement. Her childhood would seem straight...
Review: Chuck (aka The Bleeder)
"You don't know me. Well, you don't know you know me," says Chuck Wepner at the start of Chuck (originally titled The Bleeder). Indeed,...
Review: About Ray
Though titled About Ray, British director Gaby Dellal's latest film often seems less about its title character than Maggie (Naomi Watts),...
Review: Shut In
It would be too easy to say that Naomi Watts deserves much better than this cheap psychological thriller, but the truth of the matter is...
Review: The Sea of Trees
The Aokigahara Forest, also known as The Sea of Trees, lies at the foot of Mount Fuji in Japan. Its trees huddle tightly together,...
Review: Demolition
Though problems the size of fault lines pervade nearly its entirety, there is something strangely compelling about Demolition, which...
Review: The Divergent Series: Allegiant
The latest, and mercifully penultimate, installment of The Divergent series, Allegiant won't certainly entice viewers who are unfamiliar...
Review: While We're Young
"You want it now that it's impossible," Cornelia (Naomi Watts) yells at her husband Josh (Ben Stiller) as they argue in the middle of a...
