Review: Beanpole
“Beanpole” is a quiet war film. Its weapons are not bombs or bullets, but starvation and shortages.
Review: Capone
“Capone” is not impressive, but it is quite watchable.
Review: The Willoughbys
Giddy and vibrant, “The Willoughbys” is something like “A Series of Unfortunate Events” delivered by way of Pixar, with a dash or Roald Dahl thrown in for good measure.
Review: Surf Nazis Must Die
The worst thing that can be said of this film is that it doesn’t live up to its title.
Review: True History of the Kelly Gang
“True History of the Kelly Gang" is blustering, untidy, self-mythologizing, difficult to take seriously but impossible to ignore — in other words, quintessentially Aussie.
Review: Reds
Dramatizing the adventures of John Reed, a swashbuckling Marxist journalist who covered the Bolshevik Revolution firsthand, “Reds” seemed calculated to annoy, offend and alienate almost everyone.
Review: Miles Davis – Birth of the Cool
Accessible to jazz fans and non-fans alike, “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool” is a brisk, rollicking introduction to the man who needs no introduction.
Review: Touki Bouki
Restored by Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project, “Touki Bouki” is a poem in coarse words, at once lyrical and ugly.
Must coronavirus mean the end of movie night?
Netflix Party allows multiple viewers to watch a movie at the same time. The main drawback of this, of course, is that you’re limited to watching selections from Netflix’s hit-or-miss catalog of movies.
Review: Playmobil – The Movie
“Playmobil: The Movie” is a featherweight imitation of “The Lego Movie."
