I’m thinking this movie could have been better. “Freud’s Last Session” is a fictionalized story of Austrian neurologist Siegmund Freud having a meeting with “Chronicles of Narnia” author C.S. Lewis, and has […]
Freud’s Last Session
The Teacher’s Lounge
A teacher’s game of detective goes horribly wrong in this gripping drama. “The Teacher’s Lounge” is a German import that’s also a powerful and complex school drama. When it comes through the […]
The Iron Claw
Time to get back in the ring. “The Iron Claw” is a gritty professional wrestling movie about a family on the verge of deterioration. This family was known as the Von Erich […]
American Fiction
Jeffrey Wright delivers as an author catering to the audience of their stereotypical needs. When it comes to racial satires like “Bamboozled,” “Dear White People” or “Sorry to Bother You,” it all […]
The Zone of Interest
You can easily tell this Nazi drama is a horror film. In his first feature since “Under the Skin,” writer/director Jonathan Glazer gives Martin Amis’ book “The Zone of Interest” a gripping […]
Origin
Ava DuVernay emotionally expresses the misery of racism and hate. In her first film since “A Wrinkle in Time,” writer/director Ava DuVernay makes “Origin” a poetic and truthful movie about how hated […]
Maestro
Cooper and Mulligan hit the right notes of music, drama, and romance. Bradley Cooper’s directorial follow-up to the fourth film version of “A Star is Born” is “Maestro,” in which he portrays […]
Monster
You need to hear all sides to get the facts straight. Why would 5th grader Minato (Soya Kurokawa) deliberately fall out of the car door, cut his own hair, lose a sneaker […]
Eileen
Once you’re in her world, you can’t get out. Thomasin McKenzie has proven herself to be a fine young actress with such classic films as “Leave No Trace,” “The Power of the […]
The Boy and the Heron
If this is Hayao Miyazaki’s final film, then it’s a masterpiece that soars high. Hayao Miyazaki is the Japanese filmmaker who has made a name for himself in the animation world. “My […]
