Category: Movie Reviews

There’s a gift in witnessing a crew that realizes the power of seeing themselves and their stories on-screen. 

The film’s perspective is crystal clear, but it does not equate its values with impenetrable solutions.

It has an appealing Jewish neshama (soul) that peeks out from under the surface of an uneven but often funny story.

No matter how hard McElwee looks through the camera, the answer simply isn’t there.       

A film so impressed by its most memorable images that it didn’t consider how to tie them together.

This version retells their story with sincerity, humor, and songs that remain among the all-time bangers.

An elegant production with measured visual flourishes, “Familia” tells a familiar familial story.

Its action, much like its humorless dialogue and sudsy interpersonal relationships, is polished to a uniformly satisfying sheen.

A cut above the usual Founding Fathers inspirational biopic, with solid characterizations and a baseline fidelity to history.

Weird, exploitative, weird.