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: Blade Runner 2049
"I know what's real," Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) says late in Blade Runner 2049. It's a poignant line in and out of context for the...
Review: Song to Song
In his own way, director Terrence Malick has been making action musicals since his notoriously fallow output became alarmingly abundant....
Review: La La Land
Rhapsodic. Rapturous. Magical. Dazzling. Masterpiece. These are the words one wishes to ascribe to La La Land, writer-director Damien...
Review: The Nice Guys
A thoroughly entertaining slice of nostalgia noir, The Nice Guys features the unlikely and surprisingly successful comic pairing of...
Review: The Big Short
"It's like 2 + 2 = fish." That effectively sums up the 2008 global financial crisis, the inner workings of which defy easy understanding....
Review: Lost River
Lost River, actor Ryan Gosling's directorial debut, is an admirable work though not necessarily for the reasons one might suspect. It is...
