Category: Movie Reviews

Luck only gets you so far.

A documentary about acclaimed and beloved American poet Mary Oliver, with testimonials and filmmaking as eloquent as her best work.

Plays like a well-crafted, B-movie version of Scorsese.

“Mockbuster” captures how even a dream job takes actual work.

A thin but dazzling exercise in Neo-noir style, with knockout lead performances

A tough, grisly Western that overplays the grisliness a little too often for its own good.

It doesn’t quite fire on all cylinders, but when the bone-dumb gags fly this gleefully, it’s hard to care overmuch.

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.