4 May 2021
Chaos Walking is a well made sci-fi young adult yarn with an intriguing premise and strong performances which regrettably cannot reach escape velocity from the downward pull of its insipid script.
21 April 2021
The Courier offers a serviceable if rather underpowered espionage drama whose main attraction is the reliable, variation-on-a-theme performance of its headlining star.
4 April 2021
Francesco offers a jolting, discomfiting, yet illuminating foray into the life of the beloved saint of Assisi.
24 March 2021
Murder Among the Mormons is a gripping, pacey true crime whodunnit that plunges viewers into the grey market world of religious document dealing and the eerily fascinating psychology of a criminal mind.
11 March 2021
Subdued, modest in ambition, and quietly tragic, Minari is a quiet domestic drama where not a lot happens beyond work, church, and alternatingly tense and tender moments at home.
25 February 2021
Sweet, upbeat, and continually entertaining, this riff on the “same day repeating” genre is a teenage rom com at its best.
11 February 2021
One of those films where someone gets cancer and slowly dies, it sounds like just the sort of thing most of us don’t need right now. Surprisingly, though, it might be just the thing.
29 January 2021
A classic story about the moral awakening of a dock worker and reluctant hoodlum, the film reflects its time as well as a humanity that transcends it.
11 January 2021
Strange, endearing, and visually beautiful, the film offers a fanciful, light-hearted foray into what often can be frightening metaphysical territory.
31 December 2020
Sylvie’s Love makes all the gestures of a classic romance, but turns out to offer a vision of woman’s liberation which is too secular and individualistic to really satisfy.