With this sweeping epic, Dee Rees has created a racially charged melodrama that’s hard to shake.
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Mudbound
November 14, 2017I Love You Daddy
November 9, 2017
Maybe I could have appreciated Louis C.K.’s muddled mess at another time. But. A comedy about a Woody Allen-ish director, a brilliant auteur with a reputation for taking advantage of innocent young things? A movie in which Louis repeats words he has used to the real-life press, vaguely defending his own questionable reputation, reminding us not to give light to dark rumors, to things that happen behind closed doors?
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
November 7, 2017
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Martin McDonagh’s tragi-comedy turns out to be the most humane of movies: a non-sentimental but intimate look at people under the greatest of stresses but also a remarkable testament to the healing, or at least coping, powers of empathy.
Lady Bird
November 1, 2017
Greta Gerwig’s sweetheart of a coming of age movie is warm, witty and pretty darn wonderful.
Suburbicon
October 26, 2017
‘Dark’ does not even come close. This schizoid, angry comedy may be for acquired tastes, and I may not be able to watch it again for quite a while. But I’m glad I saw it and I’m glad adventurous moviegoers can, too.
Thor: Ragnarok
October 26, 2017
Somewhere near the end of this made-for-the-fans installment, Cate Blanchett states, “To be honest, I was expecting better”. I hear you, sister.
The Foreigner
October 22, 2017
Jackie Chan may be the marquee name here, but it’s Pierce Brosnan who makes this action thriller as much fun as it is.
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
October 22, 2017
Marshall
October 21, 2017
Reginald Hudlin’s look back at an early case in the career of eventual Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall is as downright entertaining as it is sadly historic.
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