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December 2015

December 22, 2015

The Hateful Eight (Tarantino, 2015)

I've mostly been a Tarantino fan, but even I can't defend this...

November 2015

November 12, 2015

Spotlight (McCarthy, 2015)

Director Tom McCarthy delivers a somber, sobering film which denies any character (or the viewer)...

November 04, 2015

Spectre (Mendes, 2015)

Spectre (★★★) starts strong, overstays its welcome, overshoots its marks, and ends up a big...

October 2015

October 04, 2015

Sleeping with Other People (Headland, 2015)

I started to write that it took me a week to decide whether or not...

September 2015

September 29, 2015

The Walk (Zemeckis, 2015)

I will confess, too, that the last act of The Walk, when Philippe Petit finally...

September 12, 2015

TIFF 2015 — Our Last Tango (German Kral)

Our Last Tango would be worth watching, if only for the dance sequences.

August 2015

August 13, 2015

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (Ritchie, 2015)

Now, there are Guy Ritchie movies and there are Guy Ritchie movies. Find out which...

July 2015

July 24, 2015

Southpaw (Fuqua, 2015)

It is a testament to film’s great storytelling that a movie about a boxer makes...

July 17, 2015

Ant-Man (Reed, 2015)

Honestly, Ant-Man has more things I liked than any comic book movie since...Batman Begins maybe?

June 2015

June 11, 2015

Jurassic World (Trevorrow, 2015)

Jurassic World (★★) is not a bad movie, but it is such a contentedly, non-aspirationally...

June 04, 2015

Spy (Feig, 2015)

Here’s the twist: Spy was funny.

June 04, 2015

Signed, Sealed, Delivered: From Paris With Love (Fair, 2015)

From Paris With Love is not going to make Signed, Sealed, Delivered the next breakout...

June 03, 2015

The Thin Place #54: Entourage — Making New Fans and Displeasing Old Ones

In the newest episode of The Thin Place, Alex McKee subs in for Todd to...

May 2015

May 29, 2015

Hot Girls Wanted (Bauer & Gradus, 2015)

This much talked about documentary from Sundance is now on Netflix. I reviewed it for...

May 14, 2015

Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller, 2015)

Fury Road has set a high bar for action films: fully realized world, fully fleshed...

April 2015

April 24, 2015

Because I Was a Painter (Cognet, 2014)

In contemplating art by concentration camp survivors, this austere yet affecting documentary offers a novel...

April 19, 2015

In Country (Attie and O’Hara, 2014)

War reenactment…huh…yeah…what is it good for? “Possibly something,” is the reply emanating from this documentary...

March 2015

March 04, 2015

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Madden, 2015)

It's clear that when beloved matriarch figure Muriel Donnelly (Maggie Smith) describes hotel entrepreneur Sonny...

February 2015

February 28, 2015

Farewell to Hollywood (Corra and Nicholson, 2015)

This documentary about the relationship between a filmmaker and his dying young protégée is both...

February 23, 2015

Out of the Dark (Quílez, 2014)

Either Out of the Dark had the misfortune to be released too soon in the...

February 07, 2015

Beyond the Mask (Burns, 2015)

Who doesn't like a good redemption arc?

February 01, 2015

As It is in Heaven (Overbay, 2014)

With his debut feature, director Joshua Overbay has created an intriguing story of a tiny...

January 2015

January 29, 2015

Hoovey (McNamara, 2015)

Hoovey is the sort of film about which a youth pastor or sleep-over-host parent can...

January 07, 2015

Documentary Double Feature: “To Be Takei” and “The Pleasures of Being Out of Step”

These two documentaries, now available for home viewing, offer interesting profiles of Nat Hentoff and...

November 2014

November 15, 2014

Strange Rumblings in Shangri La (Guglielmino, 2014)

The film, shot on 16mm, has a coloring that surpasses anything I have had the...

November 05, 2014

Interstellar (Nolan, 2014)

A full plot synopsis of Interstellar would probably exhaust my thesaurus' stock of synonyms for...

October 2014

October 11, 2014

Rose McGowan’s Dawn and the Problem of Short Films

We get thirty minutes of commercials before the previews start at the cinema. Would it...

October 03, 2014

Hollidaysburg (Martemucci, 2014)

Hollidaysburg did make me want to see her competitor's film, so Martemucci did will by...

September 2014

September 11, 2014

Dolphin Tale 2 (Smith, 2014)

Okay, I admit that Dolphin Tale 2 is probably not the kind of movie I...

September 04, 2014

Blake Rayne Interview: Identical Star Discusses Learning from a Pro

Blake Rayne says film acting was "always on my bucket list of things" but that...