Film Review: Aquarela Water You Waiting For? Global Documentary Looks Into, Around And Under The Wet Stuff. Water. It’s something so basic that we humans don’t really think about it very often—at least until we’re living in Flint, Mich. and [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 26, 2019 Read More Ice
Film Review: Official Secrets Government Whistleblower Drama Is Realistically Disappointing Everyone knows that their government—and the various other governments around the world—are doing some shady things. It’s a given. And for the most [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 12, 2019 Read More “Keira
Film Review: After The Wedding American Remake Of Danish Film Milks The Mama Drama With After the Wedding, C-list writer-director Bart Freundlich (The Myth of Fingerprints, Catch That Kid, Trust the Man, Wolves) and his A-list actress [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 29, 2019 Read More Somebody’s upset there’s not an open bar.
Film Review: Ready Or Not Devilish Black Comedy Is A Real Killer Fox Searchlight’s Ready or Not is a maniacal, blackly comic horror thriller that serves as the umpteenth rewrite of Richard Connell’s shopworn 1924 [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 22, 2019 Read More “Why couldn’t we have played Pokémon Go?”
Film Review: Blinded By The Light Springsteen-Inspired “Musical” Tries To Mix Realism And Romance Outside the confines of metropolitan London, England is a fascinatingly contradictory place—to judge by movies, anyway. Small-town, backwater English towns are—without exception, it [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 15, 2019 Read More “Baby
Film Review: Them That Follow Backwoods Melodrama Slithers Along Slowly Newbie filmmakers Britt Poulton and Dan Madison Savage attempt to make their mark with Them That Follow, an unvarnished, unexploitative snapshot of the [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 08, 2019 Read More This ain’t no pancake breakfast
Film Review: Sword Of Trust Tiny Indie Comedy Keeps Mumblecore Alive It appears these days as if the subgenre of independent film known as Mumblecore is fading into the sands of history. Many of [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 01, 2019 Read More That is one business-savvy bunch.
Film Review: Marianne & Leonard: Words Of Love Musical Documentary Ponders The Inspirational Power Of Love The word “muse” is a rather loaded piece of terminology. It traces back to the ancient Greek, of course, referencing the nine mythological [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jul 25, 2019 Read More The muse and the musician
Film Review: The Art Of Self-Defense Violent Comedy Finds Humor In The Hypermasculine Twenty years ago Fight Club taught us the dangerous, contusion-filled consequences of toxic masculinity. Fifteen years ago, Napoleon Dynamite encouraged us to root [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jul 18, 2019 Read More Jesse Eisenberg learns to kill with a touch.
Film Review: The Fall Of The American Empire Canadian Crime Caper Gets Philosophical By Following The Money Pity poor Pierre-Paul. He’s an intellectual in an age of idiots. He’s got a PhD in philosophy and is prone to saying things [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jul 11, 2019 Read More “Let’s go get sushi and not pay!”