A Kid Like Jake ★★
With Claire Danes and Jim Parsons television shows both potentially coming to an end next year people might wonder what’sContinue Reading
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Disobedience ★★★
Disobedience is the new film from director Sebastián Lelio, his second in less than a year following his Oscar winningContinue Reading
Hereditary ★★★
Following in the footsteps of The Witch and It Comes at Night, Hereditary is A24’s new widely buzzed about horrorContinue Reading
Upgrade ★★★
The second film directed by Saw writer Leigh Whannell, Upgrade depicts a rather radical solution to limb paralysis. A man,Continue Reading
First Reformed
At the very center of Paul Schrader’s First Reformed is the inherent conflict between hope and despair. Is it naiveContinue Reading
Adrift ★★
Doomed romance meets lost at sea in this film that tells the true story of Tami Oldham (Shailene Woodley) andContinue Reading
Under the Silver Lake ★★★½
Under the Silver Lake steals Tarantino‘s guiding philosophy that homage can be original and sprints home with it, tossing classic Hollywood intoContinue Reading
The Wild Pear Tree
David Lynch was right: words have failed me. As I left the Cannes premiere of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s The WildContinue Reading
Cold War ★★★
“Who knew true love could be so chilly?” should read the tagline for Cold War, Paweł Pawlikowski’s 85-minute romantic epicContinue Reading
BlacKkKlansman ★★★½
There’s a chilling moment towards the middle of BlacKkKlansman where Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) laughs at the notion thatContinue Reading
