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Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023
Review: Writer-Director Frances O'Connor's "Emily"
That name on the book cover is our first warning bell. Only two minutes into "Emily," a bold and audacious retelling of Emily Brontë's life starring an uncommonly compelling Emma Mackey, we spy freshly bound volumes of "Wuthering Heights," her only novel and life's achievement. "By Emily Brontë,"...
Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023
Review: Director Neil Jordan's "Marlowe"
The richly hard-boiled terrain of detective Philip Marlowe has always been, to quote Raymond Chandler, "a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in." Chandler's Los Angeles gumshoe has stretched across some of the most fertile decades of American cinema, from Howard Hawks' seductively cryptic "The...
Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023
Review: Director Peyton Reed's "Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania"
Peyton Reed's "Ant-Man" films have generally served as a kind of palate cleanser to the world-ending stakes of the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe. Paul Rudd's Scott Lang is just an ordinary dude, or so they keep telling us, who still can't really believe that he's part of the Avengers at all. He...
Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023
Review: Writer-Director Aline Brosh McKenna's "Your Place or Mine"
If you decide to settle in and watch "Your Place or Mine" to see the sparks fly between Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher, you'll be initially disappointed. They're not in the same room until the last 12 minutes. The premise of this particular Netflix rom-com is two old friends switching homes...
Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023
Review: Director Dave Franco's "Somebody I Used to Know"
At least Julia Roberts was invited to the wedding. I heard myself saying that out loud, rather indignantly, about halfway into "Somebody I Used to Know," the new wedding-crashing rom-com directed by Dave Franco and starring real-life partner (and co-writer) Alison Brie, in which parallels to "My...
Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023
Review: "Magic Mike's Last Dance" From Director Steven Soderbergh
The words Magic Mike may conjure up images of sweaty, sculpted, undulating men, dancing unthreateningly for hoards of screaming women, but there has always been a backdrop of brutal economic reality looming over the fantasy world. The unlikely franchise has explored the escalating devaluation of...
Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023
Review: Director Benjamin Caron's "Sharper"
Almost invariably, we root for the con artist. Seldom does the ingenuity and cleverness of a good hustler, card sharp or con man not win us over. They are, of course, walking metaphors for the movies. Through finesse and daring, they pull the wool over our eyes while emptying our pockets. They're...
Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023
Review: Director M. Night Shyamalan's "Knock at the Cabin"
Knock. Knock. It being mid-winter (typically a doldrums in movie theaters), it's a cozy relief to be able to throw open the door and find M. Night Shyamalan standing there with his near-annual helping of high-concept thriller. His last one, "Old," about vacationers trapped on a private beach where...
Monday, Jan. 30, 2023
Review: Writer-Director Mia Hansen-Løve's "One Fine Morning"
Like most things, the title of Mia Hansen-Løve's "One Fine Morning" sounds better in French. "Un Beau Matin" doesn't have that same rom-commy ring. But it's kind of nice to imagine a moviegoer, expecting a Hallmark movie, strolling instead into Hansen-Løve's sublimely melancholic drama about the...
Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023
Review: Director Lukas Dhont's "Close"
"Close" is a crushing story of grief told with grace by Belgian director Lukas Dhont. At its heart is a friendship, loving and deep, between two 13-year-old boys, Leo (Eden Dambrine) and Remi (Gustav De Waele), in the countryside. It is summertime when we meet them, playing and dreaming and out of...