A stirring dramatic thriller with a career-best onscreen turn from Benedict Cumberbatch, 'The Courier' explores the events of the Cold War through ground-level heroism, focusing on the human element and…
Sustained tension and an entirely creepy visual palette make 'Come True', a dreamy horror-hybrid about sleep paralysis, a heady haunter. Anthony Scott Burns announces himself as a thoughtful and novelly…
Disney Animation Studios one-ups their craftsmanship in the Asian-set adventure 'Raya and the Last Dragon', a beautiful-to-look-at effort that feels decidedly borrowed from establishment narratives. The jokey aspect works less…
At two and a half hours, ‘Cherry’ attempts to tackle war values, PTSD, drug addiction, teen romance, and crime but the decently-entertaining character study settles to skim the surface of…
Rosamund Pike leads a deliciously contemptible cast of characters in J Blakeson’s dark-satire-cum-crime-thriller 'I Care a Lot'. Though the film suffers the sin of having its cake and eating it too (and…
SXSW has a history of bombast. What was once a modest Austin festival that celebrated the local scene, music, and emerging artists grew into one of the largest and most-attended festivals the world over. As crowd sizes grew so too did the prestige and scale of debuts with massive blockbuster movies like Furious 7 or...
An exercise in understated family drama, Minari tells a hopeful saga of assimilation that pulls from writer-director Lee Isaac Chung’s own experience. The ensemble cast is great though I am…
A film review of 'Summer of Soul' a documentary directed by Questlove as part of our coverage of Sundance 2021.
A film review of 'Mass' written and directed by Fran Kranz and starring Jacob Isaacs and Ann Dowd as part of our Sundance 2021 coverage.
A film review of 'Night of the Kings' directed by Philippe Lacôte and starring Bakary Koné as part of our Sundance 2021 coverage.