Film Review: Wendy Arty Reimagining Of Peter Pan Grows Up Fast Back in 2012 writer-director Benh Zeitlin made his feature film debut with Beasts of the Southern Wild, a fiercely fresh fairy tale set [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Mar 12, 2020 Read More Like the Boy Scouts
Film Review: Greed Steve Coogan Fiddles While Rome Burns In Broad Satire Celebrated British director Michael Winterbottom (Welcome to Sarajevo, The Claim, 24 Hour Party People) reunites with noted British comedian Steve Coogan (Alan Partridge, [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Mar 05, 2020 Read More “Friends
Film Review: Impractical Jokers: The Movie Why, God, Why? We already live in a country heavily divided by politics and culture. Worldwide, economic inequities have lead to a fracturing of society that [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Feb 27, 2020 Read More The increased theatrical budget on Impractical Jokers: The Movie allowed for a single novelty T-shirt and an elevator.
Film Review: The Assistant Low-Key Drama Examines Office Politics In #Metoo Era Buried somewhere deep inside The Assistant, documentary filmmaker Kitty Green’s first scripted feature (after 2013’s Ukraine Is Not a Brothel and 2017 Casting [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Feb 20, 2020 Read More “Have you tried restarting?”
Film Review: Downhill Icy European Dramedy Gets Watered Down Stateside Swedish director Ruben Östlund’s 2014 film Force Majeure produced some noticeable ripples in the international art film realm thanks to its icy examination [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Feb 13, 2020 Read More “Next year
Film Review: The Turning Historic Haunted House Drama Is A Ghost Of Its Former Self Hollywood has gotten pretty handy at making bad horror movies. This past year gave us the likes of Escape Room, Annabelle Comes Home, [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jan 30, 2020 Read More Mackenzie Davis faces creepy kids
Film Review: The Song Of Names Historical Drama Plucks At Heartstrings But Buries Tune French-Canadian filmmaker François Girard knows a thing or two about the intersection of movies and classical music, having directed Thirty Two Short Films [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jan 23, 2020 Read More “This one’s called ‘The Devil Went Down to Georgia.’”
Film Review: Dolittle Newest Version Of Animal-Filled Fable Does A Little British author Hugh Lofting’s juvenile fantasy series Doctor Dolittle, first published in 1920, isn’t quite as popular as it once was among the [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jan 16, 2020 Read More Downey is gonna be mighty upset if the dog nails a Best Supporting Actor nod.
Film Review: A Hidden Life Saying “No Thanks” To Nazis It is easy to forget that not everyone who lives in a totalitarian regime likes their totalitarian regime. It’s not mass hysteria that [...] Clarke Conde \ Jan 02, 2020 Read More
Film Review: Knives And Skin Feminist Thriller Goes Deep Comparisons of Jennifer Reeder’s ’80s-flavored coming-of-age thriller Knives and Skin to Lynchian cult classic “Twin Peaks”—as well as to the work of auteurs [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Dec 19, 2019 Read More