Reviews
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‘The Dinner’ Review: An Occasionally Tasty But Incomplete Meal
An enticing appetizer, half of a hearty meal, and then we’re kicked out of the restaurant.
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‘The Meyerowitz Stories’ Review: Adam Sandler Will Break Your Heart
Noah Baumbach’s strongest film in a decade features Adam Sandler’s greatest performance to date.
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‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales’ Review: The Living Should Take the Hint
No tale at all would have been an improvement on this exhaustively bland one.
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‘Let the Sunshine In’ Review: A Master Tries Something Different
Claire Denis teams with Juliette Binoche for an uncharacteristically sunny search for romance.
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‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’ Review: A More Consistent Lanthimos
While Yorgos Lanthimos’s second English language film can’t quite match The Lobster in several regards, it still paints Lanthimos as one of the most promising and distinctive auteurs working in film today.
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The Joys of ‘Southern Comfort’ Including an Increasingly Pissed-Off Powers Boothe
Welcome to Missed Connections, a weekly column where I get to highlight films that are little known and/or unfairly maligned. I’ll be shining a light…
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‘Ismael’s Ghosts’ Review: Charlotte Gainsbourg Shines In An Otherwise Forgettable Cannes Opener
Arnaud Desplechin offers a fun, yet forgettable film to open the 70th Cannes Film Festival.
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‘Okja’ Review: Experience The Lighter Side of Bong Joon-ho
Bong Joon-ho teams with Netflix for a saccharine “monster movie.”
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‘Wonderstruck’ Review: Todd Haynes’ Latest Is So Okay It’s Boring
Wonderstruck’s shortcomings stem not from an overabundance of flaws but an absence of anything that works especially well.