Timothee Chalamet’s portrayal of Bob Dylan makes this film another love letter to the singer. Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Richard Gere, Marcus Carl Franklin, Ben Whishaw, and the late Heath Ledger have […]
A Complete Unknown
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
Not really my precious. “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” is the first theatrical animated LOTR movie since Ralph Bakshi’s take in 1978. Only it’s made by Japanese […]
Nickel Boys
A poetic film about an innocent African-American boy in a terrible reform school The time is the 60s in Jim Crow era Florida, and an African American boy has the opportunity to […]
All We Imagine as Light
Two nurses you want to get to know. “All We Imagine as Light” is a complicated Indian drama about characters with complicated issues, all spoken in Hindi, Malayalam, and Marathi. And yet, […]
Oh, Canada
Not one of my favorite Paul Schrader films. At a special screening of “Oh, Canada,” Paul Schrader was asked about how he views his movies as a former film critic. He said […]
Hard Truths
Mike Leigh’s tale of Yin and Yang sisters played memorably by two of his “Secrets & Lies” stars. Here’s how “Hard Truths” sets us in as we sit in the theater and […]
The Order
An entertaining cat and mouse game between the law and the neo-Nazi group. With movies like “Heat” or “Hell or High Water,” we get riveting perspectives from both the bank robbers and […]
The End
This apocalyptic musical doesn’t hit all the right notes. “The End” is a musical directed by Joshua Oppenheimer (“The Act of Killing,” “The Look of Silence”) and set after the end of […]
Unstoppable
This kid can fight with one leg. I have two movies distributed by MGM and Amazon this season about two kinds of fighters. There’s “The Fire Inside,” which is about the female […]
Maria
Brava for Angelina Jolie as the opera singer near the end of her life. Maria Callas is the latest female subject in Pablo Larrain’s filmography after Jackie Kennedy in “Jackie” and Diana, […]
