AMSTERDAM: AN ALMOST-GOOD MOVIE
Look, I get it. It isn’t easy to craft an original screenplay, introducing an audience to newly-minted characters worth…
BULLET TRAIN: GOING NOWHERE…
If you’ve seen Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2, or Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, you’ll recognize David Leitch’s style…
KNIVES OUT: A SHARP…
Writer-director Rian Johnson has only made a handful of films, from his high-school noir debut Brick to the most recent Star Wars epic.…
THE SHAPE OF WATER:…
Guillermo del Toro is a genius, but not all of his films turn out the way he envisions them. The…
MOVIE HIGHS AT TELLURIDE
The Telluride Film Festival is the only event I know where I could come away raving about a 1929…
THE BEST FILMS AND…
How do good movies manage to slip through the cracks? Sometimes a distributor hasn’t spent enough money on advertising…
THE HAUNTING OF ‘NOCTURNAL…
At one time it was normal to tell a story from beginning to end; now, juggling a movie’s timeline…
