Justice League might not save our world, but it’s thinking in the right direction.
Spending time with old friends has a way of reviving the people we once were, for good or ill.
As the mystery unravels, Poirot begins to find that his own instincts about crime and justice are inadequate in the face of the fractured world that evil and injustice create.
“Lady Bird” is a delight. I hope “Written and Directed by Greta Gerwig” becomes a title card I see frequently.
If there is something that mother! can be readily admired for, it is its boldness.
What really matters is whether or not he is a good man, what makes him good, and, cosmically (Catholically?), whether or not it is possible to be “good” as a human being in this world. “Original sin,” and whatnot.
The film’s principal protagonist is a young woman named Cathleen. She is both the most devoted of her peers and the one who is most clearly searching for something firm in life.
If we follow the example of the hotshots by rooting for and being with one another despite our differences, our communities may also blossom into something remarkable.
That Jane Goodall accomplished what she accomplished is remarkable. That she did it with the world laughing at her is beyond belief.
To see 78/52 at Sundance was to feel connected to a community of people both in the room and on the screen who love movies.
Writer/director Angela Robinson and crew offer a romantic, biopic that embraces emotion. Unfortunately, the convoluted plot detracts from the film’s provocative material.
“Marshall” is a thoughtful film that induces as much cultural and theological reflection as it does laughs.
Spielberg invites us to see these themes emerge and move one man through his own journey of reconciliation to self and to his family. It encouraged me to engage more in story-telling as an act of reconciliation.
Blade Runner begged you to seek answers. Blade Runner 2049 invites you to let go and enjoy.
The Florida Project is a slice-of-life drama that follows the summer adventures of a six-year-old who lives with her mother in the “Magic Castle” motel.
The Mountain Between Us delivers action, adventure, and breathtaking visuals. It also tries to deliver a love story and some drama.
Loving Vincent narrates the mysteries surrounding Van Gogh’s death through the memories of characters based on the artist’s famous portraits.
While comical and, at times, socially poignant, Battle of the Sexes remains a poorly woven sports biopic. Most of the film felt like a battle of sexualities as the film centralizes King’s extramarital relationship with Marilyn.
Aronofsky excels at creating high intensity cinematic worlds laced with mythological symbolism and horrors out of the subconscious. I watched much of Mother! through my fingers, but I was as scared to look away from the screen as I was to look at it.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind’s religious vision is striking.
A good horror film forces you to confront the depravities of human behavior in extreme circumstances, to test the limits or expose the gaps in our morality. It Comes At Night asks how far a person or a family would go to protect themselves, and what they lose in the process.