(14 movies watched)(It was the best movie month of 2019!) Marriage Story The best way to experience divorce. Yesterday A second viewing with the fam! Parasite Roller coaster. Star Wars: Rise of [...]
The review: Benny and Josh Safdie’s Uncut Gems had me so amped up that by the end, I don’t think a restorative yoga class combined with a massage could have calmed me down.* While not [...]
The review: As I discovered last year with the documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor, Mr. Rogers has a calming and cathartic effect on me; in Marielle Heller’s* A Beautiful Day in the [...]
The review: By eschewing a linear narrative, Greta Gerwig manages to make the twists and turns of Little Women* into something I want to watch more than once.** As I watched the 1994 version in [...]
The review: Considering that The Two Popes is a movie of basically two guys talking, Fernando Meirelles directs a very good film.* For those fans of walking and talking, wrestling with weighty [...]
Recommended Zombieland (November) Kim’s Convenience (June) Always be my Maybe (June) Good The Two Popes (December) Atlantics (December) Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (November) Let [...]
The review: Jay Roach’s Bombshell is a movie about three women taking on Roger Ailes/Fox News that is written and directed by men.* It’s one of those movies that lets actors disappear [...]
The review: I had Christmas cards to address and needed something Christmas-y while I was doing it,* and so I turned on Alex Zamm’s A Christmas Prince. It wasn’t terrible. I found [...]