If you enjoyed the energetic procedural drama of Spotlight, as well as two of its central performers Michael Keaton and Stanley Tucci, then Worth practically demands your attention. Dir…
Never Rarely Sometimes Always Review: Director Eliza Hittman shows the kids aren’t all right, and that’s not really our problem. | Sundance 2020
In Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Sundance directing alum Eliza Hittman (Beach Rats) engages with a subject quite frequently explored in films and television, but never quite to the same cold, gr…
The Assistant Review: A timely examination of manipulation and complicity | Sundance 2020
It’s not an exaggeration to say that Hollywood has found only middling success at best when it comes to reckoning with the MeToo movement, perhaps in part because audiences have to weigh the obvious i…
Falling Review: Viggo Mortensen’s directorial debut is an excruciating melodrama about fatherhood | Sundance 2020
Viggo Mortensen has starred in many avant-garde dramas about troubled middle-aged men, but Falling is the veteran actor’s first time directing and writing is own film, as well as starring in…
Summertime Review: Teenage poets slam an admirable, but clumsy new story about LA life | Sundance 2020
Summertime is, fittingly, a movie about time itself and its “little surprises.” We waste time wasting away on social media, while unbeknownst to us, we’re side characters in another time waster’s…
Miss Americana Review: Taylor Swift reexamines her reputation on her own terms | Sundance 2020
Early in Miss Americana, a new Netflix documentary from director Lana Wilson (The Departure), ascendent pop star and newly-minted political activist Taylor Swift comments on how her fans tend to …
‘Dolittle’ Movie Review: The name fits. This probably won’t do much for you.
Originally titled The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle, the simplified family comedy Dolittle stars Robert Downey Jr. as the acclaimed veterinarian who can miraculously speak to animals. Hugh Lofting created…