Category: Review
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Cate Blanchett Gives Her Best Performance Yet in ‘Tár’
Plus: Christian Tafdrup’s ‘Speak No Evil.’
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‘Across the 110th Street’ is a Bleak, Ambivalent Police Procedural
The film is a high-water mark for the 1970s procedural.
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‘Blue Collar”s Frankness Takes You Aback
‘Blue Collar’ doesn’t end on a hopeful note akin to the more widely seen, and still-good, mainstream unionization drama ‘Norma Rae,’ which came out the next year. It wades in, and stays put in, the hell of working a hard, badly paying job
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She’s Done It Again: On Grace Jones at the Moore Theatre
The legendary septuagenarian put on a characteristically singular show in Seattle on Wednesday.
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An Unforgettable Night with Kehlani
The pop star powered through what felt like a cursed stop on their Blue Water Road Trip tour Sunday evening at Seattle’s WAMU Theater.
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‘The Killing Floor’ is an Essential Historical Drama
‘The Killing Floor’ is as much an illuminating history lesson as it is a great, impassioned movie about the indignities of labor and the importance of fighting for a seat at the table.
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‘The Devil and Miss Jones’ Did ‘Undercover Boss’ First
Like how the film offers the unrealistic fantasy of a for-the-people mogul, we can only fantasize about a smarter, bolder version of ‘The Devil and Miss Jones.’
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‘Norma Rae’ Still Invigorates
‘Norma Rae’ isn’t electrifying by force. Instead, just by carefully dramatizing the process of unionization, it captures the simple thrills of workplace organization — the pleasurable charge felt when you realize it’s possible to have a say in an arena where you never thought you’d have one.
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‘Chameleon Street’ Still Feels a Step Ahead
Faking it till you make it is rarely as literal as it is in ‘Chameleon Street.’
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‘Strike!’ Keeps Things on the Surface
‘Strike!’ is slight but pleasant, redeemed by a charming cast and a writer-director, Sarah Kernochan, whose fondness for her characters and subject matter is infectiously clear.
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‘Brubaker’ is Admirable But Thin
‘Brubaker’ comes to epitomize what beleaguers so many so-called message movies: elucidating the macro issue of the hour with such hyperfixation that anything on the micro remains decorative.
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The Rise of Enumclaw
The Tacoma-based four-piece, whose debut album arrives in October, is among the most buzzed-about bands to emerge from the South Sound in years.
