Amy Poehler’s latest comedy fights against anti-feminism. Amy Poehler directs and co-stars in “Moxie,” a “Mean Girls” type comedy made for Netflix that fights against sexism and anti-feminism at a local high […]
Moxie
My Salinger Year
The two fine leads are upstaged by these typos in the script. Margaret Qualley is Andie MacDowell’s daughter, who has earned more attention with her role in “Once Upon a Time in […]
The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Andra Day sings her heart out as Billie Holiday. The first film to tell singer Billie Holiday’s story was “Lady Sings the Blues” in 1972, starring Diana Ross as Lady Day, Billy […]
Crisis
A drug picture that is both sober and overdosed. Other critics have been comparing “Crisis” to Steven Soderbergh’s “Traffic,” because it also uses a star-studded cast to focus on the war on […]
My Zoe
Much a cloning experiment about nothing much. “My Zoe” is the 7th film the wonderful Julie Delpy has directed (other films include “2 Days in Paris” and 2 Days in New York”), […]
The Father
Anthony Hopkins delivers another exceptional performance as a man losing his mind. “The Father,” starring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman, is a much more powerful dramatization of the affects of dementia than […]
Silk Road
“The Social Network” it’s not, but bold and interesting it is. I’ve never even heard of the Silk Road dark web site before, but when the movie “Silk Road” came to mind, […]
The World To Come
A lesbian romance is expressed through life and poetry. “Take “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” and “Ammonite,” and you’re able to see the passion inside these lesbian dramas. They may have […]
Music
This is definitely Sia’s terrible combo of autism and music. Sia’s film directorial debut “Music” is so tone-deaf and obnoxious, it’s impossible to comprehend why it would combine a story about autism […]
Land
Robin Wright takes the emotional journey into the wild. Robin Wright makes her directorial debut of “Land,” in which she casts herself as a middle-aged woman, who decides to live the remainder […]
