Category: Reviews

Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most popular and well-known works. One might grumble and wonder if we really need another adaptation of Macbeth. When an adaptation is as good as Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, the answer is inevitably yes, yes we do. This one has a killer cast with Denzel Washington taking on…
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I had regrettably never seen anything from director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi but I was anxious to see Drive My Car because it had been garnering so much buzz during awards season. Drive My Car is adapted from a short story by Murakami Haruki which is ironic because the run time of the film is two hours…
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Petite Maman was written and directed by one of my favorite filmmakers working right now, Céline Sciamma. You might recognize Sciamma’s name from her 2019 tour de force, Portrait of a Lady on Fire. If you haven’t seen that masterpiece, you should really stop reading and go watch it. Petite Maman is an incredibly different…
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Don’t Look Up is from writer and director Adam McKay and has the signature McKay tone but the premise is a little more absurd than his usual subject matter. While doing research one night, Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) discovers a massive comet on a trajectory to collide with Earth in six months. Fellow scientist Dr.…
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The Tender Bar is directed by George Clooney and is based on the memoir by J.R. Moehringer. It tells the story of his life in Long Island beginning with his time as a young boy. Young J.R. (Daniel Ranieri) and his mother (Lily Rabe) hit some hard times and have to move in with J.R.…
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Mass has an odd beginning. We witness Judy (Breeda Wool) anxiously setting up a small room in the basement of a church. She has brought an assortment of food, coffee, and a box of tissues and frets over the way the room is set up. Her anxiety and desire to be helpful is almost painful…
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Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) is a journalist, traveling the country asking kids questions about the future and how they view the world. Meanwhile Johnny’s sister, Viv (Gaby Hoffman) is having a hard time being a mother to her son, Jesse (Woody Norman). She is dealing with her husband Paul (Scoot McNairy) who is suffering from mental…
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Director Paolo Sorrentino decided to take a page out of Alfonso Cuaron’s book and make a movie about his childhood. The Hand of God takes place in Naples in the 1980’s and follows the story of Fabietto (Filippo Scotti) as he comes of age. He lives with his parents and older brother Marchino (Marlon Joubert).…
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Zola has such an interesting backstory it almost seems like it was made up to promote the movie. The story was inspired by a popular Twitter thread containing 148 tweets in 2015. The tweets and the story itself came from a Detroit waitress by the name of A’Ziah “Zola” King. The Twitter thread quickly went…
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Flee is one of the most effective and moving documentaries I’ve seen in years. Amin is on the verge of getting married to his partner, Kasper. This major life event has triggered an emotional response from him and he wants to share his past for the first time. And what an intense past it is.…
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