Review: A Private War
Marie Colvin was a woman who lived dangerously. A famed foreign war correspondent for The Sunday Times, she reported from the frontlines...
Review: Beirut
Screenwriter Tony Gilroy likes to make his actors sweat. Literally and figuratively. George Clooney has arguably never worked as hard as...
Review: 7 Days in Entebbe
Arguably the weakest re-telling of Operation Entebbe aka Operation Thunderbolt, a mission in which an elite team of Israeli commandos...
Review: Hostiles
The brutality and plaintive poetry displayed in the opening minutes of Hostiles sets the tone for what follows in writer-director Scott...
Review: The Man with the Iron Heart (aka HHhH)
Though Adolf Hitler is rightfully synonymous with the Holocaust, no less a monster was Richard Heydrich, whom the Fuhrer described as...
Review: A United Kingdom
At the beginning of A United Kingdom, set in post-WWII London, Seretse Khama (David Oyelowo) is being recalled by his uncle (Vusi Kenene)...
Review: Return to Sender
"Do you expect me to cry, scream, say 'Dear God, why me?' That's not me," Miranda (Rosamund Pike) tells her rapist William (Shiloh...
Review: What We Did on Our Holiday
Perhaps hoping to replicate the recent film successes of fellow television scribes Brendan O'Carroll (Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie) and Iain...
Review: Hector and the Search for Happiness
There is a gulf of difference between simple and simpleminded and where the childlike simplicity of François Lelord's popular novel...
Review: Gone Girl
Image is everything. Perception becomes reality. What do you think of a husband who gazes down on his lovely wife and wonders, "What are...
