Category: Movie Reviews

There are sequences in this film that are truly terrifying as Greengrass and his team block out the sun and set the earth on fire.

A slick but incurious film that is so preoccupied with showing the what of Manchester’s story that it doesn’t bother to examine the why.

A perfectly acceptable bio-documentary filled with entertaining clips and beloved entertainers telling heartwarming stories.

A Hungarian tale that rings poignantly in the American ear.

It’s extremely clever and full of surprises, and reinforces that writer, director, and co-star James Sweeney is a bold and refreshing filmmaker to watch.

It’s an intriguing idea, “The Edge of Seventeen” by way of “The Social Network”—if only it didn’t bang you over the head with its cautionary tale.

This is a bleak nugget of a film that is trying so hard to take the typical sports movie narrative and unleash its darker and more nightmarish side that it runs out of steam long before arriving at its frustratingly oblique conclusion.

The script fails to find depth in some of its most crucial characters, and sometimes feels performatively intense, but the Oscar winner for “Oppenheimer” shines throughout, adding subtlety and grace in places other actors would have ignored.

Despite a pair of very strong performances, Latif never quite figured out how to tell this complex story of race, history, and the commodification of both.

It’s a movie that sneaks up on you like great fiction, blending theme and character in a way that allows it to live in your mind after you see it, rolling around what it means to both the people in it and your own life.