Manchester by the Sea: Fire and Water
Kenneth Lonergan burst onto the scene 16 years ago with his debut film You Can Count on Me, a low-key, sharply observed dramedy that...
Celluloid Dreams
"I ask my students about their dreams," said Greg Mansur, who teaches filmmaking at Texas Christian University. "They think it's silly at first, but...
Sinister: Hum-Bughuul
If cinema has taught us anything, it’s that whenever a writer moves to a new town/house/hotel, he or she is inevitably going to scare...
Master: Almighty Dodd
Bear with me here. I write this review a scant hour or so after watching Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, and like most of...
The Best Lead Performances of 2018
Always nice to see some new faces make this list, both in the sense of "new to this list" and new to our screens....
Step Up: Flash Dance
For all the talk about how 3D has changed action thrillers and inflated box-office totals, one thing we haven’t seen yet is musicals putting...
Three Films and Change: Mother, Chloe, The Last Song
Fittingly, the main character of the volatile, uproarious, and deeply disturbing Mother has no proper name, so she’s pretty much defined by her role...
Holiday Movie Preview
Now that summer blockbuster season has bled into the Christmas period as well, we should probably start this preview of the season with the...
Hacksaw Ridge: They Also Serve
The attempted career rehabilitation of Mel Gibson continues with Hacksaw Ridge, a World War II film about a real-life American soldier who became a...
Conjuring Frights
Having apparently wrung every last drop of blood and cash from the Rube Goldberg-ian torture porn of the Saw franchise, director James Wan has...
