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Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023
Review: "Joan Baez: I Am a Noise"
Bob Dylan called it her "heart-stopping soprano," and it's true that when Joan Baez unleashed that pure, angelic voice on the protest song "We Shall Overcome," you could believe we would, indeed, overcome. The celebrated folk singer and activist was singing about civil rights, of course. But what...
Thursday, Sep. 28, 2023
Review: Director Gareth Edwards' "The Creator"
The artificial intelligence in Gareth Edwards' " The Creator," a visually magnificent if by-the-books epic, is not the AI making headlines at the moment. This is AI in the classic sci-fi mold — the Roy Battys of "Blade Runner," the Avas of "Ex Machina," the ones whose sentience we question and...
Thursday, Sep. 21, 2023
Review: Director John Carney's "Flora and Son"
John Carney, the Irish filmmaker of "Once," "Sing Street" and "Begin Again," makes the movie version of "three chords and the truth." His films, unabashedly earnest, feel-good movies for cynical times, are lo-fi musicals that tell simple stories, charmingly. There are love interests, usually. But...
Tuesday, Sep. 19, 2023
Review: Director Craig Gillespie's "Dumb Money"
The little guy — or at least the little guy with a few hundred bucks to sink into the stock market — gets a movie to cheer with "Dumb Money," the real story of a very recent financial rebellion that shook Wall Street to its loafers. Paul Dano plays our hero here, Keith Gill, a new dad from the...
Thursday, Sep. 14, 2023
Review: Director Roger Ross Williams' "Cassandro"
Anyone who has eagerly followed Gael Garcia Bernal since his breakthrough roles in "Amores Perros" and "Y tu mamá también" likely never foresaw him one day in the world of lucha libra wrestling. Bernal, far from the most brawny actor, has been a slyer shape-shifter, whether in heels as a femme...
Wednesday, Sep. 13, 2023
Review: Director Kenneth Branagh's "A Haunting in Venice"
Kenneth Branagh indulges in the kind of macabre theatricality that only a crumbling Venetian palazzo on a stormy Halloween night can provide in "A Haunting in Venice." Moviegoers probably long ago made up their mind one way or another about Branagh's stately and flawed Hercule Poirot franchise, but...
Wednesday, Sep. 6, 2023
Review: Director Pablo Larrain's "El Conde"
The Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is not dead in Pablo Larraín's "El Conde." He is instead a 250-year-old vampire living in semi-exile and wishing for death in this audacious allegory about history's tendency to repeat itself, shot in sublime, otherworldly black and white. It is fitting that...
Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023
Review: Director Antoine Fuqua's "Equalizer 3"
There's an awful lot of talk about the end of movie stars considering Denzel Washington is right over here, walking around. Antoine Fuqua's "Equalizer 3," a taut and textured sequel to Washington's vigilante series, isn't one of the actor's best films. It wouldn't crack his top 10. But it vividly...
Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023
Review: Director Emma Seligman's "Bottoms"
The rites and rituals of the raunchy high-school comedy can be as prescribed as a class syllabus. But what makes Emma Seligman's "Bottoms" such an anarchic thrill is how much it couldn't care less. Sure, come to "Bottoms" with your expectations of house parties and hijinks. But you'll be leaving...
Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023
Review: Director Guy Nattiv's "Golda" Starring Helen Mirren
Golda Meir was many things — modern Israel's first and only female head of government and a wartime prime minister. And she now she's provided the vehicle for Helen Mirren to try to earn some more acting awards. The great English actor dons prosthetics and an air of sourness in "Golda" to portray...