Inside a burning car as windows crack. The vertigo of a swirling plane underwater. A cleanly framed shootout in a dilapidated apartment building. These are the exciting set-pieces that keep Stefano Solima’s adaptation of Tom Clancy’s novel chugging along. And … Continue reading Review: ‘Without Remorse”
Films about addiction call to Hollywood. They give performers the opportunity to linger down in the gutter for a bit. Or they give full permission to develop a performance based on tics and nervous scratching. In short, it’s a method … Continue reading Review: ‘Four Good Days’
Nikole Beckwith’s Together Together isn’t a romantic comedy about a pregnancy, but a comedy that happens to involve a pregnancy. There’s a big difference. Here is a film that draws its gentle humor not from a couple struggling to re-define … Continue reading Review: ‘Together Together’
Michael Nader’s The Toll straddles the line of horror film rhetoric between updated urban thriller and old-school psychological terror. It begins in the world of cell … Continue reading Review: ‘The Toll’
Based on his own short story and written by acclaimed novelist Lev Grossman, The Map of Tiny Perfect Things is tailor made for the young adult/teen audience lapping up the modestly scaled features and Netflix-budgeted mini-series aimed at their hungry … Continue reading Review: ‘The Map of Tiny Perfect Things’
With a rustically poetic voice-over and an eye for the harshness of the western frontier (both exterior and interior), Mona Fastvold’s The World to Come brilliantly charts the relationship that blossoms between two women in a time not known for … Continue reading Review: ‘The World to Come’
