Hearts Beat Loud: Haley Makes Music with Offerman and Clemons
Brett Haley follows “The Hero” with another intimate and small-scale drama that touches on love and loss, looking back and moving forward. Nick Offerman,…
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Boots Riley is “Sorry to Bother You”
by Greg Carlson | Jul 11, 2018
Boots Riley hallucinates a wildly funny feature debut with “Sorry to Bother You,” a sharp-fanged social satire that mashes up the innovative handmade aesthetics…
Read NowGranik Returns with Compelling “Leave No Trace”
by Greg Carlson | Jun 27, 2018
Filmmaker Debra Granik’s “Leave No Trace,” based on Peter Rock’s novel “My Abandonment,” demonstrates some spiritual and stylistic kinship with the director’s tremendous “Winter’s…
Read NowHereditary: Aster’s Horror Debut Keeps It All in the Family
by Greg Carlson | Jun 20, 2018
Scaring up early buzz as a premiere in the Midnight section of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, Ari Aster’s “Hereditary” is the horror film…
Read Now‘The Rider:’ Dreams Deferred, Dreams Fulfilled
by Greg Carlson | Jun 13, 2018
Writer-director Chloe Zhao’s sophomore feature “The Rider” cements her status as one of contemporary filmmaking’s most promising voices. A carefully curated blend of fact…
Read Now“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” Fred Rogers Documentary Brings Such a Good Feeling
by Greg Carlson | Jun 6, 2018
In a bit of fortuitous timing. Oscar-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville turns his attention to public television superstar Fred Rogers, an almost universally beloved figure…
Read NowRBG: Supreme Documentary Is a Must-See
by Greg Carlson | May 30, 2018
Betsy West and Julie Cohen assemble a welcome biographical portrait of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the octogenarian icon whose legacy already includes…
Read NowHedy Lamarr Doc Makes TV Premiere on American Masters
by Greg Carlson | May 23, 2018
Hedy Lamarr stars in film "Ziegfeld Girl," 1941. Credit: Everett Collection
Read NowFargeat Takes Ferocious “Revenge”
by Greg Carlson | May 16, 2018
Earning a limited theatrical release following a successful run of festival appearances and a streaming deal with Shudder, writer-director Coralie Fargeat’s “Revenge” simultaneously embraces…
Read Now‘Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot:’ Van Sant finally brings John Callahan’s story to the scree
by Greg Carlson | May 9, 2018
In the most Gus Van Sant scene in a very Gus Van Sant movie, John Callahan (Joaquin Phoenix) spills out of his wheelchair and…
Read NowBergman Documentary Screens as Part of MSPIFF Retrospective
by Greg Carlson | May 2, 2018
Jane Magnusson and Hynek Pallas’ “Trespassing Bergman,” an often playful deconstruction of the work and life of the legendary Swedish filmmaker through the eyes…
Read NowSchumer Explores the Beauty Myth in “I Feel Pretty”
by Greg Carlson | Apr 25, 2018
Longtime writing partners Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein make their joint directorial debut but don’t quite get everything right in “I Feel Pretty,” an…
Read Now“Truth or Dare” Tries to Scare Up More Blumhouse Magic
by Greg Carlson | Apr 18, 2018
Leveraging whatever name-brand clout it might carry with the target demographic, “Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare” — the onscreen title for the pre and post-credit…
Read NowAnderson Comments on Resistance in Controversial “Isle of Dogs”
by Greg Carlson | Apr 4, 2018
Wes Anderson returns to animation with “Isle of Dogs,” a showcase of expectedly eye-popping production design and art direction that partially obscures a pricklier,…
Read Now“You Were Never Really Here”: Ramsay and Phoenix team for instant cult classic
by Greg Carlson | Mar 28, 2018
Only Lynne Ramsay knows the details behind her departures on a couple of movies, but we have been fully rewarded by her picky, methodical…
Read Now‘Sami Blood’ named best narrative feature at FFF18
by Greg Carlson | Mar 14, 2018
A captivating lead performance by Lene Cecilia Sparrok anchors the stout and handsome “Sami Blood,” winner of the award for Best Narrative Feature at…
Read Now‘Seeing Allred’: Sundance doc on iconic attorney now on Netflix
by Greg Carlson | Mar 7, 2018
Iconic feminist and women’s rights attorney Gloria Allred is the subject of Sophie Sartain and Roberta Grossman’s “Seeing Allred,” now on Netflix Instant Watch…
Read Now‘Annihilation’: Garland steps inside the Shimmer
by Greg Carlson | Feb 28, 2018
Considerably less accessible than his directorial debut “Ex Machina,” veteran writer Alex Garland’s “Annihilation” very loosely adapts Jeff VanderMeer’s novel into a demanding thought…
Read NowOscar-nominated ‘On Body and Soul’ streaming on Netflix
by Greg Carlson | Feb 21, 2018
Hungarian filmmaker Ildiko Enyedi, whose 1989 debut “My Twentieth Century” won the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, achieved another career highlight recently…
Read NowFogel’s “Icarus” scores surprising Oscar nomination
by Greg Carlson | Feb 14, 2018
Given the film’s somewhat odd marriage of style — the personality-driven presence of chatty neophyte documentarian Bryan Fogel — and substance — the ugly…
Read Now‘The Shape of Water’: Del Toro’s monster madness and movie magic
by Greg Carlson | Feb 7, 2018
Of the great designs in the history of movie monsters, there are few as satisfying as Universal’s stunning Gill-man. First envisioned by William Alland…
Read NowAnderson and Day-Lewis stitch with ‘Phantom Thread’
by Greg Carlson | Jan 31, 2018
A delectable and devilish exercise in exquisite restraint, “Phantom Thread” offers compelling evidence that Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day-Lewis can do quiet and…
Read NowThe Polka King
by Greg Carlson | Jan 26, 2018
Making its way to Netflix a year after debuting at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, “The Polka King” is the fictionalized version of Ponzi…
Read NowDocumentary: the strange relationship of famous writer and motel voyeur
by Greg Carlson | Jan 17, 2018
Now playing on Netflix Instant Watch, Voyeur is the curious story of strange bedfellows Gay Talese — the once influential and celebrated journalist —…
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