SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS (2023)
“just blah and pedestrian - certainly nothing super about it”
Read MoreCREED III (2023)
“this pairing jumps off the screen as one I want to see again and again in the future”
Read MoreELVIS (2022)
“dull bombastic affair”
Read MoreMARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON (2022)
“most adorable movie of the year”
Read MoreDOCUMENTARY ROUND-UP
“This isn’t all the documentaries I see, but the ones that stuck out enough to say something”
Read MoreCLOSE (2022)
“subtly knifing youth acting”
Read MoreARGENTINA, 1985 (2022)
“a tobacco stained real-life political thriller”
Read MoreTHE SEA BEAST (2022)
“The water effects are pretty spectacular”
Read MoreBARDO: FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS (2022)
“like grains of sand falling through your fingers, it left me unfulfilled”
Read MoreEMPIRE OF LIGHT (2022)
“It’s all steak, no sizzle.”
Read MoreTHE QUIET GIRL (2022)
“it wasn’t just a clever title”
Read More2023 OSCAR ANIMATED SHORTS
“Can the spastically styled tale of losing one’s virginity beat the star-studded kiddie cutie?”
Read More2023 OSCAR LIVE ACTION SHORTS
“Perhaps not the strongest grouping but, like the docs, not full of depression and sadness”
Read More2023 OSCAR DOCUMENTARY SHORTS
Surprisingly, these weren’t soul crushing as with most years.
Read MoreWOMEN TALKING (2022)
“Being a worthy story does not a good movie make”
Read MoreMRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS (2022)
“1950s period piece about haute couture clothing is a film TAILOR MADE for a costuming Oscar nod”
Read MoreLIVING (2022)
“Just watch Ikiru”
Read MoreTHE WHALE (2022)
“extremely emotionally manipulative but without completely sacrificing its worthiness”
Read MoreANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA (2023)
“a vast vacuous CGI plain of mediocrity, quickly losing any of the drive, excitement or sheer fun that you expected”
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