Let me preface this by saying that I had absolutely no interest in seeing Jojo Rabbit. The idea of a satire about Nazis was completely unappealing to me, and I put off watching it for so long, it became the last movie I watched before our San Diego Film Critics Society end-of-year vote. Michael and…
It would be easy to bash Cats like so many other reviewers have done because the movie really is bad and the puns are just too tempting. But the truth is, it’s not a complete cat-astrophe. (Okay, I couldn’t help it.)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire is so beautiful, it’s like a painting in itself. This French film tells the story of Marianne (Noémie Merlant), a young artist commissioned to paint a wedding portrait of Héloïse (Adèle Haenel). The painting is to be sent to Héloïse’s future husband in Milan but there’s a problem. Héloïse…
There are a lot of movies that will outrage you this holiday season, and Richard Jewell is right up there. Clint Eastwood’s latest directorial effort is based on the true story of the bombing at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta that killed two people and injured more than one hundred. Richard Jewell was a security…
WOW. That was pretty much all I could say after the screening of Uncut Gems. The Safdie Brothers’ Uncut Gems is the kind of movie you either love or hate — and, really, I should have hated it. It’s ugly, it’s violent, it’s misogynistic, it’s filled with non-stop profanity. But Michael and I left the…
