THE CLUB / EL CLUB (2015)
[usr 3.5] Recently crowned Best Picture at the Oscars, Spotlight detailed the uncovering of the shocking child sex scandal associated with the Catholic Church....
THE WITCH (2015)
[usr 4.5] I wasn’t surprised to learn that The Witch’s writer-director, Robert Eggers, is from New England (his hometown is Lee, New Hampshire, about an...
KUNG FU PANDA 3 (2016)
[usr 4.0] Whether or not this is the farewell for this under-appreciated animated series is uncertain, but Kung Fu Panda 3 provides a conclusive...
THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT (2016)
[usr 2.0] Identity and the search for self play an integral role in the structure of good YA fiction. It’s therefore as ironic as...
HIGHLANDER (1986)
[usr 3.0] Highlander was released in North America on 7 March 1986 to mixed-to-negative reviews and little success at the U.S box office. A...
CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON: SWORD OF DESTINY (2016)
[usr 2.5] For all its critical and commercial success back in 2000, Ang Lee’s martial arts epic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon doesn’t get talked...
AUDITION (1999)
[usr 4.0] The early-2000s were the era of the Japanese horror movie. Films like Ring, Dark Water, and The Grudge occupied the supernatural part...
SUFFRAGETTE (2015)
[usr 3] Wonder Woman is a child of the suffragette movement. The symbols we associate with her strength and power belonged to the American...
BONE TOMAHAWK (2015)
[usr 3.0] Bone Tomahawk is, for the most part, a character-driven western with lots of talky scenes. It’s also a bloody and violent western...
SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE (2015)
[usr 3.0] Sleeping with Other People was self-deprecatingly pitched by its own writer-director as “When Harry Met Sally for assholes” when it debuted at...
OUT 1 (1971)
[usr 5.0] Jacques Rivette is an ongoing revelation for me. News of the French director’s death broke as I was part way through watching...
THE FINEST HOURS (2016)
[usr 3.5] With Brooklyn, Carol, and now The Finest Hours, films set in 1952 are having a bit of a moment. Here, the story...