Film Review: Moana Disney Sets Sail In The South Seas With A Mythical New Toon The tendency when viewing a new Disney animated film is to—fairly or unfairly—compare it to various time periods in the company’s history. Over [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Dec 01, 2016 Read More Disney’s newest duo: God and girl
Film Review: A Street Cat Named Bob Felines And Heroin Make For An Odd Mix In Feel-Good British Drama [photo]When it comes to sentimental animal tales, dogs generally have it all over cats. From Old Yeller to Marley & Me, there’s just [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Nov 17, 2016 Read More Pussy Riot
Film Review: Moonlight Somber, Poetic Look At Inner-City Manhood Ponders Multiple Questions Of Identity Percolating up from the film fest circuit and into mainstream theaters where it’s already generating some Oscar buzz (the Independent Spirit Awards seem [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Nov 10, 2016 Read More Moonlight
Film Review: Certain Women Kelly Reichardt Gets Quiet In Montana With An Incredible Cast Indie film storyteller Kelly Reichardt (Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff) offers up another of her slow, contemplative character studies in the [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Nov 03, 2016 Read More Kristen Stewart as a certain woman
Film Review: Long Way North Old-Fashioned Adventure Yarn Is An Animated Delight There was a time when young people dreamed of more earthly pursuits. Generations of children were put to bed with successive chapters of [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Oct 20, 2016 Read More Just another girl and her dog story?
Film Review: We Are Young. We Are Strong. German Drama About Immigration And Xenophobia Hits Home Note: Writer-director Burhan Qurbani will attend all screenings at the Guild Cinema to participate in a post-film Q&A. Devin D. O'Leary \ Oct 13, 2016 Read More If only they had listened to the peaceful words of David Hasselhoff.
Film Review: Shin Godzilla (Godzilla: Resurgence) Godzilla Raids Again In Muscular Japanese Reboot It’s hard to keep a good man down. A giant monster? Even harder. So it’s no surprise that “The King of Monsters,” Godzilla, [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Oct 06, 2016 Read More “Smile for the camera
Film Review: Queen Of Katwe Unfamiliar Setting And Offbeat Subject Make This Sporting Drama Better Than Much Of Its Competition Disney and ESPN join their brand-name forces in order to bring us exactly the sort of uplifting, sports-inspired tale you would expect in [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 29, 2016 Read More “Isn’t this much more fun than Pokémon GO?”
Film Review: Max Rose Sad Drama About Death And Regret Adds A Modest Capper To Its Star’s Long Career A good 20 years after his last on-screen appearance, show biz legend Jerry Lewis returns for an elegiac role in the minor key [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 22, 2016 Read More You don’t joke about Dean Martin around Jerry Lewis.
Film Review: Snowden Oliver Stone’s High-Tech Muckraker Makes A Solid, One-Sided Argument Since he distilled Jim Garrison and Jim Marrs’ various books on the Kennedy assassination into his 1991 opus JFK, filmmaker Oliver Stone has [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 15, 2016 Read More “No. I have never played Pokémon GO.”
