Captain America: Brave New World

February 12, 2025 by

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.

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I’m Still Here

February 3, 2025 by

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.

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September 5

January 16, 2025 by

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.

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Better Man

January 5, 2025 by

Thought “A Complete Unknown” was too traditional? Well, have I got a movie for you.

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A Complete Unknown

December 21, 2024 by

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.

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Joanna Langfield’s Top 10 Movies of 2024

December 13, 2024 by

Here are my Top Ten Movies of 2024.

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The Last Showgirl

December 13, 2024 by

The surprise poignancy and performance here are what gives this slender sweetie its real pizazz.

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Nickel Boys

December 10, 2024 by

An uncompromising fever dream, RaMell Ross’s film, based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize winning book, is brilliant, challenging and frustrating.

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Lake George

November 29, 2024 by

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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The Order

November 29, 2024 by

What could be just another police procedural hits us as a most urgent precautionary tale.

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