Film Review: If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
byIt doesn’t matter how serious your film is; you can always make it about love. That’s apparently the philosophy of Barry Jenkins, the Oscar…
Film Review: At Eternity’s Gate (2018)
byThe life and death of Vincent Van Gogh has been an obsession of the art world for 128 years now, and still the vision…
Film Review – Arctic (2018)
byThere’s something especially gratifying about watching survival movies. They can distil the human experience down to essential choices, bring into focus what’s really important,…
Film Review: On the Basis of Sex (2018)
byIn 1956 Harvard had five hundred students enrolled in its prestigious law school. Nine of them were women, one of which was Ruth Bader…
Film Review: Cold Pursuit (2019)
byIn the world of unnecessary remakes, Hans Petter Moland’s Cold Pursuit probably sits up there with Michael Haneke’s Funny Games, David Fincher’s The Girl…
Film Review: Capharnaüm (2018)
byIs it fair that our children often bear the burden of the worlds that they are brought into? Capharnaüm, directed by Lebanese director Nadine…
Film Review: The Front Runner (2018)
byIn a time where a man with multiple allegations of sexual assault against him can become president, it’s crazy to think that thirty years…
Film Review: Ben Is Back (2018)
byBen Is Back is a personal film for its writer and director, Peter Hedges. While not based on any one true story, it is…
Film Review: The Mule (2018)
byAt the incredible age of eighty-eight Clint Eastwood shows no signs of slowing down. With almost one film directed or produced every year since…
Film Review: Green Book (2018)
byIn the shamefully recent past of the mid-twentieth century, Victor Hugo Green, a New York City mail-man, published The Negro-Motorist Green Book annually. It…