This one gets the job done. As long as all you’re asking is to move the story along and set us up for yet more of the franchise.
Author Archive
Captain America: Brave New World
February 12, 2025I’m Still Here
February 3, 2025
Is anyone really safe? Is anyone really safe?
That’s the unshakeable takeaway from Walter Salles’s haunting retelling of what happened to one family, living in Brazil in the early 1970’s.
September 5
January 16, 2025
Taut and eerily thrilling, this retelling of the tragic events of the 1972 Munich Olympics carries lessons that are as urgent today as they were, decades ago.
Better Man
January 5, 2025
A Complete Unknown
December 21, 2024
Is James Mangold’s biography of Bob Dylan, or at least his early days, a great piece of art? No. Is it revelatory or even historically accurate? Not really. But, close as it is to all that, it is also one of the most entertaining movies of the year.
Joanna Langfield’s Top 10 Movies of 2024
December 13, 2024
The Last Showgirl
December 13, 2024
The surprise poignancy and performance here are what gives this slender sweetie its real pizazz.
Nickel Boys
December 10, 2024
An uncompromising fever dream, RaMell Ross’s film, based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize winning book, is brilliant, challenging and frustrating.
Lake George
November 29, 2024
What a treat it is to watch the wonderful Shea Whigham and Carrie Coon play (and I do mean play) in the kind of quirky movie we don’t get to see a lot of these days.
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