A warmhearted movie you should see. “Sight” is based on the true story of how the Chinese immigrant Ming Wang became a world famous eye surgeon in America, and has mostly been […]
Sight
IF
John Krasinski’s imaginary friend movie needs to keep wearing the thinking cap. “IF” is an acronym for “Imaginary Friend.” You know the characters that children create that are invisible to the parents […]
Aisha
Shuri, you must find enough four-leaf clovers to stay on the Emerald Isle. Letitia Wright, continuing to break free from her Shuri persona, plays a Nigerian woman named Aisha taking refugee in […]
Back to Black
They tried to make me like this biopic, but I said, “No, no, no.” Amy Winehouse has lived a short life of 27 years, because of her alcohol poisoning, but has won […]
Adam the First
Oakes Fegley excels as a boy trying to find his real father. As “Adam the First” begins, David Duchovny as an old man named James tells his boy Adam that he isn’t […]
Final Wager
A Christmas movie in May that gambles too safe. A fan of my reviews is sharing my work on her magazine, and is covering a small indie film that co-stars Michael Madsen […]
I Saw the TV Glow
The 90s were all that, and so is this movie. “I Saw the TV Glow” is a movie made for the 90s kid in all of us. The kind before streaming existed, […]
The Idea of You
A romance between a mother and a much younger singer hits the right notes. In terms of romances between mothers and younger men, the chemistry between Reese Witherspoon and Pico Alexander in […]
Wildcat
A weak biopic on the author Flannery 0’Connor. “Wildcat” is probably the weakest film I saw at the Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF) this year. My cousins (in their early 60s) and […]
The Fall Guy
As the stuntman, Ryan Gosling can sure take a hit. When TV-to-movie transitions go wrong (“The Dukes of Hazzard,” “Wild Wild West,” “Baywatch,” “The Beverly Hillbillies,” etc.), they can get degrading. But […]
