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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…
Knives Out just may be the most fun movie of the year – which is an odd thing to say about a murder mystery. When popular writer Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found dead in his study the morning after his 85th birthday, it looks like a suicide except who really slits their own throat?…
Before watching The Irishman, I would have said Martin Scorsese never needed to make another gangster movie again. I mean, how many Mob guys killing each other does anyone need to see? And yet, The Irishman is on my list of best movies of the year.
Why, oh, why couldn’t The Good Liar live up to its amazing stars? How can a feature length film starring Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen not be as good as the episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in which the brilliant actors act out the President’s Ukraine call?
Having raved about Won’t You Be My Neighbor, the documentary which turned me into a Fred Rogers fan at the age of fiftysomething, my first reaction upon learning about A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood was “Who needs another movie about Mr. Rogers?” Well, apparently we all do.
Sometimes you (okay, I) just need a good rom-com. For probably three quarters of the movie, Last Christmas fit the bill. And then, to my shock and dismay, it went terribly wrong and instead of me walking out feeling satisfied and humming the title song, I was annoyed and thinking, “WTF?”
