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-26 posts tagged "movie review"
Jane Miller | Friday, September 9, 2022
Topping the charts of Goodreads and receiving endorsements from the likes of Reese Witherspoon and Taylor Swift, Delia Owens’s 2018 novel “Where the Crawdads Sing” was an instant success. The much-anticipated release of its film adaptation, however, has not come without scrutiny. “Where the Crawdads Sing” follows Kya Clark as she grows up alone in
Christine Hilario | Thursday, March 31, 2022
It’s a story of boy meets girl. “Fresh” protagonist Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones) is jaded from the dating scene: tired of scarf-wearing douchebags, the endless scroll of dating apps and unsolicited nude pictures. She’s about ready to throw in the towel on the dating endeavor when she meets Steve (Sebastian Stan) at her local grocery store.
Justin George | Thursday, March 31, 2022
The latest film from Ti West and A24 is what I imagine it would look like if Tobe Hooper directed “Boogie Nights” instead of Paul Thomas Anderson. “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” and “Boogie Nights” are not two films I ever thought that I would mention in the same review, yet here we are. “X”
Aidan O'Malley, Anna Falk, Olivia Seymour, Claire Lyons, Lexi Kilcoin, Evan McKenna, Justin George, Caitlin Brannigan and Gracie Eppler | Friday, December 3, 2021
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: 2020 was an unprecedented year. Nowhere was this truer than on the screen, both silver and small. Barely any films were released theatrically, and television (rather, streaming) dominated our media appetites like never before. 2021 — while frustratingly similar to the year that came before — at least
Jake Winningham | Monday, March 25, 2019
Jordan Peele couldn’t have asked for a better debut as a writer-director than “Get Out,” a critical and commercial success that boosted the former sketch comedian’s Hollywood profile into the stratosphere. How does one follow up a movie that made over $250 million, won an Oscar and seized the zeitgeist seemingly upon release? Peele answers
Patrick McKelvey | Friday, January 18, 2019
If you pay close attention to the slate of movies released every year, you’ll notice a seasonal pattern emerges. This pattern is constant, unwavering. It almost never changes. It’s hard to mess with the calendar of a multi-billion dollar industry. January and February are the “dump months,” when production studios release the absolute worst movies
Ryan Israel | Friday, November 30, 2018
Diane Park | The Observer` Everybody handles grief differently. Few people, however, handle grief by performing an interpretive dance set to Bruce Springsteen’s “Thunder Road” at a somber funeral. But it’s actions like this that make Officer Jim Arnaud (Jim Cummings), who serves as the centerpiece and driving force of the film named after the
Letter to the Editor | Monday, November 19, 2018
It all started with Gwen Stefani. Donald Trump was mad NBC was paying “The Voice” star more than he was getting paid for hosting “The Apprentice,” so he decided to run for President — his second time after a half-hearted attempt in 2000 — and booked two venues to follow his now infamous ride down
Cameron Sumner | Wednesday, October 3, 2018
“Was that supposed to be a comedy?” my friend Molly mused as we walked out of the movie theater last week. We had just seen “A Simple Favor,” the new movie directed by Paul Feig. The film, starring Blake Lively, Anna Kendrick, and Harry Golding (recent star of “Crazy Rich Asians”), left us somewhat perplexed.
Nicholas Ottone | Thursday, September 13, 2018
From its first frame, Bing Liu’s documentary “Minding the Gap,” available to stream on Hulu, feels vitally, viscerally alive. We glide along with skateboarding kids, skid around corners, duck parking lot arms. Sunshine, fading, yet still vibrant, envelopes the screen. Wide, joyful smiles cover the faces of our subjects. There is life and joy and