Category: A24
‘Eternity’ Film Review: Love and Hard Decisions in the Afterlife
“Elizabeth Olsen gives a committed performance filled with heart and an old-fashioned comic style that we used to see from performers such as Katherine Hepburn and Myrna Loy.”
‘The Smashing Machine’ Film Review: Johnson is Powerful, Solo Safdie is Passable
Johnson is almost a lock for an Oscar nomination and one can hope that he will realize the opportunities that await.
‘Eddington’ Film Review: Conspiracies and Doomscrolling in a Broken America
“With Eddington, the director has crafted an intense and pointed look at the deformities of America’s broken social structures.”
‘Warfare’ Film Review: The Hell of Combat, The Brotherhood of Soldiers
Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland have crafted a precisely detailed masterwork of tension and emotion.
‘Death of a Unicorn’ Film Review: Comedy and Horror Struggle For Interest
Death of a Unicorn finds its strongest point in its marvelous cast.
‘Opus’ Film Review: Middle of the Road Cult-Worship Thriller
The screenplay doesn’t dig too deep, although it presents itself as having something important to say, but struggles with articulating its ideas on the screen.
‘Sing Sing’ Film Review: A Profoundly Moving Work of American Cinema
Based on the Rehabilitation Through the Arts program (RTA) that began at New York’s maximum-security Sing Sing Correctional Facility, Greg Kwedar’s Sing Sing is a powerful and important piece of American cinema. Mixing professional actors with the actual men who
‘MaXXXine’ Film Review: The Best Film of a Unique Trilogy
With only the rarest of exceptions, sequels are an unwise venture and hardly ever work. Prequels are even harder to pull off, as an origin story can ruin a character’s mystique. To have the third film in a series be
‘Janet Planet’ Film Review: More Writer’s Workshop Than Real Film
It is a pleasure to experience a filmmaker who knows how to embrace silences. Some directors can find meaning underneath the quiet while others think filming something seemingly mundane makes their work “artsy”. Writer-director Annie Baker’s Janet Planet falls somewhere
‘Civil War’ Film Review: A Viscerally Thrilling Warning For Our Times
Alex Garland’s latest, Civil War, is a riveting cinematic event. It has been some time since a filmmaker has captured the climate of America so precisely. Paul Schrader’s powerful 2017 statement, First Reformed, is perhaps the last time and that