Director and co-writer Sebastián Leilo’s story of a black sheep’s return to the pen (though not the fold) hits three notes of a religious chord: faith rejected, faith endured, and faith tested. The first sounds clean and clear, embodied with …
by Matthew LickonaThe same line, that would be, as the previous year's Ray, a musical biopic on a recently fallen giant of popular song, C&W; instead of R&B;, Johnny Cash instead of Ray Charles, two years dead instead of mere months, but …
by Duncan ShepherdIf David Lynch couldn’t make heads or tails of Frank Herbert’s famously unfilmable novel, what was it about Denis Villeneuve that pegged him as the visionary needed to tame the 412-page beast? Sure, he did a splendid job of piloting …
by Scott MarksA sexed-up (if not exactly sexy), sassy, and ultimately slight crime …
A story of overcoming adversity and the journey behind Bob Marley's r…
Lawrence of Arrakis meets Dr. Sandworm, or, How I Learned to Stop Wor…
Director Cord Jefferson’s adaptation of writer Percival Everett’s nov…
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive…
Carla Nowak, a dedicated sports and math teacher, starts her first jo…
A natural gas salesman (Matt Damon, not director Gus Van Sant) uses t…
Set in France in 1889, the film follows the life of Dodin Bouffant (B…
A late 19th century Polish village is a hotbed of gossip and ongoing …
Sharon Stevens (Hilary Swank), a fierce but struggling hairdresser in…
Hirayama is content with his simple life cleaning toilets in Tokyo. O…
An elderly lama (Kelsang Choejey), recognizing that extraordinary cha…
David Lynch's The Straight Story, we are hereby reassured, was the aberration; the twisted story is the one for him. In this case it's a braided story, besides twisted, of the intertwined fates of two women, one light and one …
by Duncan ShepherdThe same line, that would be, as the previous year's Ray, a musical biopic on a recently fallen giant of popular song, C&W; instead of R&B;, Johnny Cash instead of Ray Charles, two years dead instead of mere months, but …
by Duncan ShepherdGeorge Lucas's homage to Flash Gordon embraces, too, some of the beloved clichés of cowboy, swashbuckler, and aviator movies. The story is set in a remote galaxy in the remote past, so that it can't be mistaken as a reflection …
by Duncan Shepherd