The Night Before delivers holiday laughs year-round
Conventional wisdom holds that holiday movies play best during the holidays they’re set in, but as someone who has watched Elf at slee... Continue Reading
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Sweeping drama Carol is more than meets the eye
Todd Haynes’ Oscar-nominated period lesbian romance Carol is such a slow burn of a movie that I had to actually watch it twice before ... Continue Reading
Despite its many charms, Intern does not get the job
Anyone who loves movies and Pinterest is no doubt very well versed by now in the inspiring cinematic interiors of writer-director Nancy Meye... Continue Reading
Spotlight outshines Truth in battle of journo dramas
Hollywood has a long, storied tradition of making movies in duplicate. And while that trend is generally reserved for big, blockbuster title... Continue Reading
Lyrical, heartfelt An is indie food porn nirvana
Just a few years out of college in 1997, Japanese writer-director Naomi Kawase became the youngest winner ever of the Camera d’Or at the Can... Continue Reading
Pixie dust cannot save Pan origin story from itself
Ever since Walt Disney broke the mold with the classic animated version in 1953, live-action versions of Peter Pan have been a fairly dicey ... Continue Reading
Infinitely Polar Bear is infinitely watchable
Generally speaking, movies about bipolar disorder tend to fall into two pretty distinct camps. They are either very serious and very dramati... Continue Reading
American Ultra is bound for stoner classic glory
With the number of A-list potheads in young Hollywood these days you’d think that crafting a truly great stoner comedy would be easier... Continue Reading
Award-season drama at its best, Room will floor you!
The Oscar nominations are still weeks away, but if you ask me, any doubt about who will take home the Academy Award for Best Actress this ye... Continue Reading
Tomlin shines in choice-centered dramedy Grandma
In a holiday movie season dominated by powerful young female characters like The Hunger Games’ Katniss Everdeen and Daisy Ridley’... Continue Reading
Jurassic World not nearly as bad as it looks. Really!
Up until the release of a certain high-profile sci-fi sequel this weekend, Jurassic World was the top-grossing film of 2015 with a whopping ... Continue Reading
Old-school espionage thrills in Bridge of Spies
If you miss the good old days of picking up a really juicy spy thriller in the airport gift store and reading it from cover to cover in-flig... Continue Reading
Twisty thriller The Gift is gift that keeps on giving
Maybe I’m a little jaded, but whenever I hear that one of my favorite actors has written and/or directed a movie, the words “van... Continue Reading
Terminator Genisys is time travel turkey of the year
With airports packed to the rafters with surly, well-fed and flight delayed passengers this Thanksgiving weekend I thought it would be only ... Continue Reading
Vacation sequel is outta control trip worth taking
Although the Skywalker clan seems to be the only fictional onscreen family movie fans care about these days, another beloved cinematic famil... Continue Reading
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