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Too many movies and shows dropped this past December, leaving busy holiday-minded audiences little time to catch up with everything. One notable show that you might have missed just so happens to [...]

There are actors who leap off the screen with their larger-than-life approach to performing, and then there are actors who always carry a little more in reserve. Those who hold back, like the [...]

My choices for the 10 Best Films of 2022 make up the most international list I’ve logged since starting to review films here back in 2011. Those movies that moved me most represent filmmakers [...]

Filmmaker Sarah Polley has pulled off a significant hat trick with WOMEN TALKING. Not only does her film boast the year’s best-adapted screenplay (which she wrote), but her cast is the best [...]

Writer/director Rian Johnson’s KNIVES OUT was a huge critical and audience success back in 2019, and it wasn’t long before Netflix made a whopping contract with the filmmaker to do some sequels. [...]

One might think that Netflix should have launched their new Addams Family spinoff WEDNESDAY, about Morticia and Gomez’s macabre daughter at Halloween. Yet, opening it on the Wednesday (of course) [...]

The first BLACK PANTHER movie stood out in the Marvel Cinematic Universe for many reasons. Its vast and diverse cast, stunning production design and costumes, and pointed commentary aimed at [...]

Writer/director Martin McDonagh has always cultivated a very dark sense of humor in his plays and films, and in THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN, such sensibilities may have reached their zenith. The [...]

Filmmaker Marie Kreutzer weaves deliciously sly symbolism throughout her new period drama CORSAGE, starting with the very first images. She introduces us to Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Vicky [...]

As I watched SIDNEY, the new documentary about iconic film star Sidney Poitier, I thought of what the Wizard told the Tin Man about hearts not being judged by how much one loves, but by how much [...]