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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...
Friday, Nov. 11, 2022
Guild Awards Preview: Delving Into Brave Prequel Worlds
With the guild awards season fast approaching, we can expect as in years past a series of familiar TV shows, telefilms and limited series to gain recognition--some of which have already scored at the Emmys back in September but remain eligible for the likes of the ACE Eddie, Art Directors Guild (...
Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022
Review: Apple TV+'s "Spirited" Holiday Musical Starring Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds
The devil works in public relations in "Spirited," a new spin on "A Christmas Carol" starring Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds. With songs by "The Greatest Showman" duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, big ensemble dance numbers choreographed by Chloe Arnold and special effects galore, "Spirited" it is a...
Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022
Review: Ryan Coogler's "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever"
Made in the wake of tragedy, "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" reverberates with the agony of loss, piercing the usually less consequential superhero realm. Like someone going through the stages of grief, Ryan Coogler's movie is at turns mournful and rootless, full of rage and blessed with clarity...
Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022
Review: Steven Spielberg's "The Fabelmans"
A movie by one of Hollywood's most successful directors that's based on his early life begins, appropriately enough, at a movie theater and ends in a movie back lot. "The Fabelmans" is clearly a very personal film for Steven Spielberg and it's as much a coming-of-age journey as a form of expensive...
Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022
Review: Director Sebastián Lelio's "The Wonder" Starring Florence Pugh
It is 1862 in a remote Irish village when an English nurse is called in by a local council to observe and investigate a phenomenon in the haunting new film "The Wonder." There is, she's told, an 11-year-old girl who has not eaten food in four months and seems to still be healthy. The nurse, Lib...