Watcher: Facing Windows
Since the mid-2000’s, the country of Romania has been turning out great films, not just by talented native directors but also by foreigners: the...
Jockey: Last Go-Around
I’ve said it before: Great character actors deserve at least one starring vehicle in their careers. Clifton Collins Jr. is a great character actor....
Holiday Movie Preview
As of this writing, there is one major Hollywood blockbuster scheduled to come out in theaters before the end of the year. It is...
Angels in the Field
Heaven knows I don’t have anything against poofy escapism, but when it’s packaged with shallow rah-rah feminism, it doesn’t seem to do much for...
Follow That Frog
It was great to have the Muppets back on the big screen three years ago, but now the novelty has worn off, so where...
Bonus Film Review: Suicide Squad
Once upon a time, Warner Brothers revived its Batman series with a talented young director at the helm named Christopher Nolan. And it was...
With My Little Eye
Okay, that’s more like it. That thought kept running through my head while I was watching Spy. You see, Melissa McCarthy’s post-Bridesmaids career as...
To the Max
What you'll probably notice about writer-director Spike Jonze's long-anticipated Where the Wild Things Are is that a lot is missing: cheap pop-culture references, self-conscious...
Possessor: Some Bodies
I’m trying to avoid the clichés endemic to film critics when I’m talking about Andrea Riseborough, but it isn’t easy resisting the temptation to...
The Beguiled: Life and Limb
I'll start this review by admitting that I haven't read Thomas Cullinan's 1966 novel The Beguiled, which was first made into a movie in...
