Sometime between the late preschool years and before shyly toddling into Miss Judy’s Kindergarten class was when my formerly little, Charles Schulz-designed hands touched and held what was possibly...
Michel Franco’s “Memory” examines how our ability to recall the chapters of our lives is everything, as we make sense of what we’ve lost and gained, as well as garner a perception of who we are.
Hearing...
"Fountains of Demonic, Deadly Water"
Content: -3 Excessive sex, violence, immorality, and/or worldview problems. (Sometimes excessive content such as violence is in otherwise redemptive movies.)
Entertainment...
“Jaws” made us afraid of the beach.
“Night Swim” wants to do the same for the deep end of your swimming pool.
Good luck.
The latest Blumhouse shocker delivers PG:13 thrills, the kind that...
“American Fiction” is a blistering takedown of Identity Politics that keeps getting interrupted by a lesser story it cares too much about.
Jeffrey Wright plays a black professor who can’t find...
"Horrifying, Distasteful Take on Thanksgiving"
Content: -4 Intentional blasphemy, evil, gross immorality, and/or worldview problems. (To be avoided)
Entertainment Quality:
Credits →
What...
Arthur Curry: I don’t know what lies ahead. But we can’t leave our children in a world without hope.
Well, maybe if one considers the possibilities resulting from behind the scenes drama, there...
Andrew Scott plays Adam in Andrew Haigh’s “All of Us Strangers,” a lonely, quiet man who lives in a London apartment where he is one of the few tenants.
Adam meets seemingly the only other person...
FERRARI is a portrait of Enzo Ferrari, the Italian racecar maker, and focuses on three months in 1957 leading up a pivotal, dangerous 1,000-mile race across Italy, a time when both Enzo’s business and...
Oh, the somewhat good ol’ days when cape flicks bore more of an artist’s vision. The sixth film in the formerly known DC Extended Universe saw its success in the gradually rotting, sizzling and...
POOR THINGS is a quirky, but extremely obscene, atheist, feminist satire of western society, with a story about a mad scientist who reanimates a female suicide victim’s body with her own child’s brain...
THE COLOR PURPLE is a musical version of a 1985 movie directed by Steven Spielberg, which is about a black woman from the first half of the 20th Century who’s separated from her beloved sister and abused...
THE IRON CLAW (Sean Durkin, USA, 2023) 5
"If you walk in knowing the basics of the Von Erichs’ history (and I did as I was a huge pro wrestling fan — a mark probably — at the time and saw them...
MONSTER (Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan, 2023) 4
"If there’s anything worse than a gimmicky narrative structure that doesn’t work, except as a trick and subterfuge, it’s a film that tells the same...
POOR THINGS (Yorgos Lanthimos, Britain, 2023) 8
"Lanthimos is nothing like the Dardennes, except in one respect — his sensibility is extremely Victoresque. His demento sense of humor and his ideas...
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SHERE HITE (Nicole Newnham, USA, 2023) 3
"Based on what I remembered of her public career, I thought THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SHERE HITE had the potential to be interesting if it concentrated...
DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD (Radu Jude, Romania, 2023, 8)
"So apparently Jude appeals to me in the same way Godard does to those people who don’t think him an empty-headed, bloviating...
THE TEACHER’S LOUNGE (Ilker Catak, Germany, 2023) 6
"a reductio ad absurdum of small-d democratic education and its melting before actual human behavior, including gossip and procedural authority...
AMERICAN FICTION (Cord Jefferson, USA, 2023) 7
"Or what if BAMBOOZLED were a good and smart movie (which is very definitely a fiction)…?"
More at: vjmorton.wordpress.com/2023/12/26/christmas-leftovers/
...
Total found: 15742