MY OLD SCHOOL (Jono McLeod, Britain, 2022) 7
In fiction, I donโt think thereโs such a thing as a script too good to eff up; for documentaries, I am confident thereโs such a thing as a subject...
DUAL (Riley Stearns, USA, 2022) 9
There are all sorts of questions you could ask about the logical premises of DUAL, and the negative early reviews have focused on them. Honestly, I was cackling too...
NANNY (Nikyata Jusu, USA, 2022) 8
I wasnโt crazy about WATCHER, thinking the film about an immigrant womanโs isolated paranoia in a big city was unidirectional and thin. So naturally the next film...
LA GUERRA CIVIL (Eva Longoria Baston, USA, 2022) 6
LA GUERRA CIVIL is a pretty good, entertaining boxing documentary if youโve never in your life heard of Julio Cesar Chavez or Oscar de la Hoyaโbut...
A LOVE SONG (Max Walker-Silverman, USA, 2021) 5
A great movie theoretically exists with this cast (primarily Dale Dickey and Wes Studi) and premise (old widows who havenโt seen one another for decades...
The Bobโs Burgers Movie ***1/2
What has two thumbs and can provide a test case for whether this long-running Fox animated sitcom works as a feature for someone whoโs never seen a single episode?โฆ...
Chip โn Dale: Rescue Rangers ***
Yes, it is basically a legacy-quel spin on the premise of Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, complete with a villain threatening the unique properties of animated...
THE HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR (Dziga-Vertov, USSR, 1921, 4)
Ken Burns shooda made this in my opinion. Though thereโs obviously historical value in the footage, itโs only even really a movie in the...
A SISTER OF SIX (Regnar Hylten-Cavallius, Sweden, 1926, 4)
Could I get a flow chart please? Imagine SOME LIKE IT HOT if half of Sweet Sueโs Society Syncopators had back stories involving further...
STEAMBOAT BILL JR. (Charles Reisner / Buster Keaton, USA, 1928, 10 (was 9), R)
Things I noticed for the first time on what was my third viewing just in a theater of this well-canonized masterpiece,...
WAXWORKS (Paul Leni, Germany, 1924, 9)
Wow. Just wow. (And not just becaise thereโs no apologies for the unabashed cultural appropriation โฆ Emil Jannings as an oriental despot!)
Itโs as if THE...
We know what a Sam Raimi superhero movie looks like.โฆ
It would be great if we didnโt have to spend so much time talking about extra-textual stuff before diving into the Fantastic Beasts movies.โฆ
Compartment No. 6 **
Like Planes, Trains & Automobiles, this drama is built around a reluctantly-shared journey between a tightly-wound protagonist and boisterous traveling companion where...
Cheaper By the Dozen *1/2
Iโm certain that the creative team of this latest adaptation of the 1948 bookโdirector Gail Lerner and screenwriters Kenya Barris & Jennifer Rice-Genzuk, all...
If you follow the world of movies and television at all, youโre certainly familiar with the concept of the โgritty reboot.โ Itโs become something of a clichรฉ in recent years, this notion...
Blacklight **
We could quibble over precisely how many of Liam Neesonโs roles over the past decade constitute him going back to the โvery particular set of skillsโ/grizzled-badass routine,...
Living ***1/2
Kazuo Ishiguro might have been the perfect choice to adapt Akira Kurosawaโs masterpiece Ikiruโnot just because of his toehold in both Japanese and British cultures, but because...
After Yang ***1/2
Kogonadaโs 2017 debut feature Columbus was a masterful example of finding profound emotion in quiet, restrained filmmaking; his follow-up, adapting a short story by Alexander...
The 355 **1/2
The titleโa reference to a never-identified Revolutionary War-era female spyโmay be meant to honor all the women in the history of espionage, but the movie itself feels more...
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