Reviews

‘The Drop’ Review: Tom Hardy Shines In This Old-Fashioned Crime Film Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation In 2011, director Michaël R. Roskam made a big splash…

Corniche Pictures As if by magic, music somehow repeatedly allows movies to get away with things that wouldn’t work in any other context. Musicals regularly…

Cinelou Films Claire Simmons (Jennifer Aniston) is in pain. Chronic pain, actually, the kind she tries to relieve by attending a support group for women…

Lionsgate “Oh, the loneliness in this world / Well, it’s just not fair” “Lonely. Scared. Frightened.” If we take Bill Pohlad’s impressive Love & Mercy at…

Noruz Films “It’s not your home anymore.” Director Ramin Bahrani has long been preoccupied with portraying the price of the American dream on the big…

by Sam Fragoso Movies Inspired In one of his more infamous reviews, Roger Ebert wrote “Only enormously talented people could have made Death to Smoochy. Those…

Fox Searchlight “Strayed” isn’t really Cheryl Strayed’s last name. The author and subject of “Wild” was originally born Cheryl Nyland, and eventually decided to change…

‘The Last 5 Years’ Review: At Least Anna Kendrick Is Worth Singing About Radius Hey, did you know that Anna Kendrick can sing and act? Did…

It’s easy enough to get an audience worked up during the end of an inspirational biopic – that’s basically the point of most films in…