Tag: Focus Features
‘The Holdovers’ Review: Paul Giamatti Shines in Alexander Payne’s Endearing Return to Form
When director Alexander Payne’s name is mentioned in film circles, ears perk up, especially with this critic. The modern crafter of the almighty curmudgeon, Payne’s eyes for isolation, survival, and “oh woe is me” attitude is something to cherish as
‘Asteroid City’: Film Review
In the age of IP-driven, franchise-connected films, few other filmmakers exist, as does Wes Anderson. Sure, his stylized way of storytelling has its fans. I’m one of them. His work has also attracted his detractors. Recently, Anderson was quoted as
Film Review: ‘Inside’
As humans age, intrinsic life lessons recess further into our memories so that they are only a glimmer. It is not until we’re again faced with the possibility of those life lessons that we remember them with great clarity. Such
‘Of an Age’: Movie Review
Love is a curious event in our lives, one that finds us when we least expect it, one that we sometimes fail to fully appreciate. Time is an aspect of that love. Together, human intuition takes over, making for awkwardness
Top Ten of 2022: A Unity in Cinema
Top Ten films of 2022 . . . that’s a tough chore. Once again, I’m coming in right under the wire. As I write this, my list of Top Films of 2022, we’re seven hours, 30 minutes from ringing in
‘Spoiler Alert’ Review: Romance Story is Long on Romance, Short on Fundamentals
I confess that, as a film critic, I go into movies cold these days. Trailers tend to give too much away. Social media is ablaze with factoids about new projects; I don’t want to know what a movie will say
‘Armageddon Time’: Film Review
Coming-of-age stories are, collectively, a dime-a-dozen. We’ve seen them in the afternoon specials, cinema, and stage. As an audience, we have a fixation with exploring themes of the past and their influences on us as children through, often, rose-colored glasses.
‘Vengeance’: Movie Review
It would be easy to say that B. J. Novak’s Vengeance is a Coen brother – esque film. Novak’s directorial debut, in which he plays the film’s protagonist, Ben Manalowitz, a plucky journalist and podcaster, spends the first fifteen minutes
‘Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris’: Movie Review
At one point in Anthony Fabian’s Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, Isabelle Huppert’s Claudine Colbert, the Directress of the fashionable Christian Dior gallery, matter-of-factly reminds Lesley Manville’s Ada Harris, “You are nobody. Invisible.” Mr. Fabian’s adaptation of Paul Gallico’s classic