This is a repost from Third Coast Review; no films this week for me to review, so I'm sharing a theater review I'm particularly proud of. Without ever brandishing so much as a pistol or pocketknife, upheaval and conflict are at the center of J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls, a play that ...
Archives for February 2019
Review: Everybody Knows
What's most striking about writer/director Asghar Farhadi's (A Separation, The Salesman) new film, Everybody Knows, even with strong performances and its setting in lush Spanish wine country taken into account, is the language of the thing. And that's not a euphemism, some reference to a ...
Review: Never Look Away
For those of us who pay attention to this sort of thing, this year's contenders for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film are collectively the strongest group of nominees in recent memory. From the masterpiece that is Alfonso Cuaron's Roma to Nadine Labaki's devastatingly ...
Review: Oscar Nominated Short Documentaries
If you're looking for a pick-me-up at the movies this weekend, checking out the Oscar Nominated Documentary Short Films may not be the way to go. A powerful, haunting slate of five short documentary films (ranging from about 8 minutes to a full 40 minutes), the films vying for the film industry's ...
Review: Velvet Buzzsaw
Like many die-hard film fans, I was sad to miss Sundance Film Festival this year. It marks the start of a new year of films we'll be talking about through to next year's Oscars, and it can be hard to have to wait for some of the gems that premiere there to find their way to theaters across the ...