GOLDA (2023)
"just a bit murky and bogged down by the events and politics it surrounds"
Read MoreNAPOLEON (2024)
"What a boring slog this “history class come to life” is"
Read MoreCIVIL WAR (2024)
“fire and brimstone that ends up signifying very little”
Read MoreZONE OF INTEREST (2023)
“cumulative sublime portrait of cratering darkness”
Read MoreSISU (2023)
“older Finnish Wick merc’in Nazis was a pretty apt description”
Read MoreALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (2022)
“breathes a dying vigor into the celluloid whisper of a conflict long past”
Read MoreCHERRY (2021)
“Partially it’s the casting and the over abundance, but it just feels like kids putting on a show”
Read MoreSHADOW IN THE CLOUD (2021)
“pulse-pounding faire, its bounds were too astronomical and its drama thoroughly grounded”
Read MoreGREYHOUND (2020)
A dadfernoon WWII fanservice extravaganza
Read MoreTHE CAVE (2019)
“worthy and insightful peer into some atrocious human horrors”
Read MoreFOR SAMA (2019)
“a record not only for her daughter but for the world, to see what we allowed to happen”
Read More1917 (2019)
“aligns itself well in the annals of indisputable cinematic glory”
Read MoreJOJO RABBIT (2019)
“torturous horror bleeds through the smiles and frivolity”
Read MoreOVERLORD (2018)
A definitive “not bad but actually pretty good” film
Read MoreDUNKIRK (2017)
"It is a cinematic whirlwind, devastating and changing all that it touches with a style, grace, forlorn, and hope."Read More
13 HOURS (2016)
"Surprisingly not awful."Read More
LAND OF MINE (2015)
"...I would say it was like Stand By Me meets Hurt Locker, with maybe a bit of Empire of the Sun."Read More
HACKSAW RIDGE (2016)
"it is a militaristic fluff piece draped over the ringing of a church bell."Read More
SON OF SAUL (2015)
"constant shallow focus keeping us in each moment, with no escape, just like the prisoners"Read More
A WAR (KRIGEN) (2015)
" I saw the walking talking skeleton of a grippingly intense military quagmire, but none of the guts"Read More