Regular readers will know the drill: Due to the fact that I am merely an amateur film critic who (a) has to watch movies out of my own pocket and (b) doesn't get screeners it means I am nowhere ready to make a Best of 2019 list at the end of the year like everyone …
1917 is a movie that sucks you into its wake. Beginning in a quiet field with soldiers napping peacefully on a sunny day, the movie quickly plunges you into the horrors of World War I, as director Sam Mendes (Skyfall, American Beauty) embeds you with two soldiers Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) and Schofield (George MacKay) who are …
When Greta Gerwig first announced that her next project would be an adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women", it seemed like an odd choice. After the success of the vibrant and wonderful Lady Bird and with the world seemingly at her feet, it was unclear why she would want to choose a project that had been …
(While I won't be actively discussing the biggest story points here, lets just assume that minor SPOILERS about basic details of the plot will be present in this review) Over 40 years after Star Wars entered and dominated large segments of popular culture Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker comes with the promise of finally bringing the core …
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Knives Out begins by getting straight to the point: the morning after his 85th birthday party with his larger family the successful crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead in his study, and everyone is a suspect. Step up the private detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), who from the moment he shows up is obviously the …
Everything you need to know about Ford v Ferrari is right there in the title. This crowd-pleasing and well-made movie about the Ford racing team's quest to win the 24-hour Le Mans race follows just about every predictable beat you can imagine in a sports movie. But what sets it apart is the magnetic star presences of Matt …
The first time I heard the fog horn in The Lighthouse it jolted me out of my seat. By around the sixth time I heard it, I was ready to throw something at the screen, such was the horn's incessant ability to get under my skin. By the end of the movie however that horn had …
"Money is an iron, it smoothes out all the creases." Parasite, the Cannes Film Festival winner and the latest by the visionary Korean director Bong Joon-Ho (The Host, Snowpiercer, Okja) starts with a classic premise: a tale of two families. One of them, the Kims, lives literally below street-level in a back-alley apartment crawling with …
Do yourself a favor: Before strapping yourself in for this Brad Pitt star-vehicle, ignore any of the promotional material surrounding the movie, which hints at some sort of science-fiction action extravaganza that provides cosmic level entertainment. Anyone going in expecting that is bound to be disappointed. Ad Astra stands firmly instead in the tradition of universe …
Early on in Lorene Scafaria's Hustlers we follow Destiny (Constance Wu) in a single steadicam shot as she prepares for her first night at a high-end strip club in New York, the moment evoking Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas in the best possible way. Moments later, we are given an unforgettable introduction to the club's star Ramona (Jennifer Lopez) with a show-stopping …
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