Black Bear ★★★
Lawrence Michael Levine’s third directorial feature, which had its premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is a hard filmContinue Reading
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Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story ★★½
If you lived during the 1990s, then you are most likely familiar with the popular Nickelodeon cartoon The Ren &Continue Reading
Worth ★★
What is life worth? This question is posed many times in Sara Colangelo’s biographical drama, Worth. It is posed byContinue Reading
Never Rarely Sometimes Always ★★★½
Eliza Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always is one of those Sundance films that will surely get people talking. It isContinue Reading
A Hidden Life ★★★½
In every war, there are those who fight and those who do not. While film, and artistic depictions of warContinue Reading
Portrait of a Lady on Fire ★★★
Painting, like any kind of art, is a personal interpretation of truth. A portrait is as much the painter’s perspectiveContinue Reading
Parasite ★★★★
Much of the delight in watching a Bong Joon-ho film is caught up in experiencing the careful tightrope all ofContinue Reading
The Lighthouse
It doesn’t take much more than the opening scene of The Lighthouse to realize you’re watching the work of aContinue Reading
Sorry We Missed You ★★★½
While I watched the exhaustingly devastating Sorry We Missed You, I couldn’t help but ponder the brief but shrewd remarksContinue Reading
Nina Wu ★★½
At its core, the #MeToo movement has at least somewhat succeeded in exposing the degree to which corruption, misogyny, andContinue Reading
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