Category: Review
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‘Marriage Story’ is a Top-Tier Divorce Drama
The ending allows us to look forward. If it’s contrived, I didn’t mind.
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‘The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show’ is Barely Functional
I’m hard on ‘The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show’ because I sense it might have been more.
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‘Losing Ground’ Makes You Wish We Got More from Kathleen Collins
‘Losing Ground,’ shot for $125,000, is semi-autobiographical for the gone-too-soon director.
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Everyone is at Their Best in ‘The Irishman’
‘The Irishman’ feels like something of a climax for the lead actors — like their professional lives have been leading to this moment.
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‘Knife + Heart’: Sex and Death
What makes ‘Knife + Heart’ such sleazy fun is how well it mixes pleasure and panic before the darkness becomes inescapable.
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‘Mommie Dearest’ is Excruciating to Watch
Faye Dunaway is like a vacuum in ‘Mommie Dearest’: loud and prone to engulfing everything around her.
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On ‘The Honeymoon Killers’
‘The Honeymoon Killers’ was Kastle’s first movie. It was also his last.
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‘A Touch of Class’ Feels Like Two Movies
‘A Touch of Class’ could be a nice subversion of old tropes with a biting twist. But instead it’s an update on old tropes with a contrived twist.
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In ‘Parasite,’ the Laughs Cost You
On Bong Joon-ho’s immediate classic.
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On ‘Wanda’
On Barbara Loden’s sole feature-length project.
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It Would Almost Be Impolite Not to Be Enchanted by ‘A Matter of Life and Death’
On Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1946 masterpiece.
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Ingrid Pitt Makes ‘The Vampire Lovers’ Worth Watching
Aside from Pitt and the way it gets us to root for a villain, ‘The Vampire Lovers’ isn’t very good on the whole.
