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Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022
Review: Director Elegance Bratton's "The Inspection"
Elegance Bratton is certainly not the first person to turn to the military to fill a hole in his life. But the filmmaker also knew he had a boot camp story that hadn't been told a dozen times before. His feature debut, " The Inspection," is an intensely personal and truthful, if not entirely fact-...
Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022
Review: "Lady Chatterley's Lover" From Director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
The lovely and magnetic young actor Emma Corrin certainly has a thing for characters who marry unwisely. We cringed when Corrin's winsome, affection-starved Diana married Charles in "The Crown," knowing the heartbreak that lay ahead. Heartbreak also loomed for Harry Styles' blushing bride in "My...
Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022
Review: Director Tommy Wirkola's "Violent Night"
The holiday season is upon us and how better to celebrate than watching Santa slip several pool balls into a Christmas stocking, swing them in the air menacingly and see him cave in someone's face? Such is "Violent Night," a film that clearly no one wanted but somehow nicely acts as a chaser to all...
Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022
Review: Director Florian Zeller's "The Son"
If you don't have children, you will likely walk out of "The Son" shaken and deeply moved. If you do have kids, you may have to be eventually pulled to your feet after collapsing into a fetal ball for several hours. Writer-director Florian Zeller's second installment in his trilogy examining mental...
Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022
Review: Director Rian Johnson's "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery"
The business of making original movie sequels is often a thankless job. You can't just do the same thing again, but you also can't be too different either. And many watching will have their guard up from the outset, suspicious that it is ultimately just a shameless cash grab. In the case of "Knives...
Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022
Review: Director Noah Baumbach's "White Noise"
Like Don DeLillo's 1985 novel, the heart of Noah Baumbach's "White Noise" is in the supermarket. There, in the gleaming aisles of neatly arranged cereal boxes and produce, DeLillo found America's church: an over-lit spectacle of abundance and artificiality. "Here we don't die," says Murray, the...
Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022
Review: Director J.D. Dillard's "Devotion"
There must be something about actor Glen Powell that casting directors associate with the heavens. He's played astronaut John Glenn in "Hidden Figures," voiced a NASA official in the animated film "Apollo 10 1⁄2" and has two roles this year as a hotshot Navy aviator. Here he is in "Devotion,"...
Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022
Review: Director Maria Schrader's "She Said"
Those old Hollywood newspaper flicks are great, but today's journalists don't run around newsrooms yelling "Get me rewrite!" Nor do they sprint across the room shouting "Stop the presses!" over the click-clack of teletype machines and manual typewriters. But that doesn't mean you can't stage a...
Friday, Nov. 11, 2022
Directorial Perspectives On "Till" and "Armageddon Time"
Chinonye Chukwu has found that at times the most profound way into a story can be the path less--or even never before--traveled as reflected in her taking a detour from the conventional protagonist perspective in the last two features she directed, Clemency (2019) and now Till (Orion Pictures,...
Friday, Nov. 11, 2022
Cinematographers & Cameras: Lensing "Tár," "Women Talking," "Don’t Worry Darling"
One DP realized his dream of working with a director whom he feels set the tone years ago for what’s possible in indie cinema. Another continued a fruitful collaborative relationship with a writer-director which has now yielded their most challenging and perhaps most relevant film. And our third...