DUNE DRIFTER (2020)
“throws its middleweight pounds behind its punches to land some stiff shots”
Read MoreTWO OF US (2021)
“an elegant and somber triumph”
Read MoreJUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH (2020)
“Kaluuya is pure fire on screen; like a Neolithic blaze enrapturing and warming the shivering proto humans gathered around it”
Read MoreSTARDUST (2020)
“Let me worship at my deity’s feet instead of listlessly withering into his flawed and restrained humanity”
Read MoreNEWS OF THE WORLD (2020)
“The “news” it brings is all very subdued and lame.”
Read MoreNOMADLAND (2020)
“The crush of modern society and the new gig economy juxtaposed with the idyllic & frett freedom of the wayfarer”
Read MoreMULAN (2020)
“the film itself is the dullest of blades, unable to cut tissue, let alone the binding of cultural mores or cinematic ramparts”
Read MoreSAINT MAUD (2021)
“trapped terror of dark catholic femininity”
Read MoreMINARI (2021)
“the struggle of growing up, growing anew, and growing together - in land and in heart”
Read MoreLUZ: THE FLOWER OF EVIL (2019)
“moments of splendor paired with the jumbled cultish familial strife”
Read MoreTHE LITTLE THINGS (2021)
“Trying to recapture the gritty and disturbed fortitude of 90s Denzel Washington crime thrillers, but failing”
Read MoreRELENTLESS (2020)
“a swim through the possibilities is better than the film’s sink to the water logged bottom”
Read MoreMASS (2021)
“cutting journey on the double edged sword of pain that is the lonely search for truth of the parents of a mass shooting”
Read MoreALONE (2020)
“stripped down terror chase”
Read MoreSPONTANEOUS (2020)
“Its flamboyant sprinkles of dark humor detonate continuously”
Read MoreSHADOW IN THE CLOUD (2021)
“pulse-pounding faire, its bounds were too astronomical and its drama thoroughly grounded”
Read MoreANOTHER ROUND (2020)
“Dismaying and droll, depending on which side that bottle cap falls for you”
Read MoreA PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (2020)
“immersive and corrosive and subversively eruptive”
Read MoreBAD EDUCATION (2020)
“Hugh Jackman killed it”
Read MoreKAJILLIONAIRE (2020)
“strings holding this shaky structure together were gaunt and my amusement was abortive”
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