Review: Welcome to Marwen
Considering the true story on which it is based, Welcome to Marwen should be a compelling work. Yet, for all its technical wizardry, the...
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: Beautiful Boy
There's no denying that Beautiful Boy is an inherently heartbreaking portrait of the loving but strained relationship between a father...
Review: Battle of the Sexes
If tennis remains the only sport in which men and women receive equal prize money, that is mostly due to the efforts of Billie Jean King....
Review: Café Society
The heart doesn't always get what it wants in Woody Allen's Café Society, which contains a melancholic heart within its confectionary...
Review: Freeheld
Solid performances can't quite save Freeheld, a fact-based drama that allows the political to overwhelm the personal. As with The Danish...
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: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, Not Good, Very Bad Day
Judith Viorst's 1972 children's book chronicling the series of unfortunate events that unfold during a day in young Alexander's life...
Review: Foxcatcher
On January 26, 1996, John du Pont shot Dave Schultz three times in the driveway of Schultz's home, which was located on du Pont's...
