(13 movies watched) Where’d You Go, Bernadette When you may have lost your grip on reality. Margot at the Wedding When you worship a self-involved parent Honey Boy When your self-involved [...]
Overall: I came out of the Animated Shorts feeling defeated and depressed. Thank goodness for the wacky Hors Piste—a bonus feature, and the very brief Maestro. All of the shorts this year are [...]
The review: Paul Downs Colaizzo’s Brittany Runs a Marathon captures that oh-so-familiar post-college floundering, and layers in female body issues and shaky friendships. It does all of [...]
The review: Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory reminded me how few movies there are about the realities of aging. Antonio Banderas captures a director hamstrung by pain* and flashbacks give [...]
Recommended Zombieland (November) Good The Two Popes (December) Atlantics (December) Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (November) Let it Snow (November) The King (November) Now & Then [...]
The review: Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell is a little too clear about the director’s feelings about the media and the F.B.I.,* but what this film does well is ably recreate the [...]
(The cars make that zooming sound repeatedly. The plot drags.) The review: James Mangold gives us a male gaze turned inward* with Ford v Ferrari and also spends a lot time filmsplaining.** If you [...]
The review: John Dahl’s Red Rock West was a film I watched in the mid-90s* and remember enjoying, but wasn’t sure how it had aged. I’m here to tell you that this film still [...]