There is no one who can do family drama the way Asghar Farhadi does. No one. Watching storylines unfold, characters discover untold secrets and figure things out before dealing with…
Written and directed by Joel Edgerton, based on the memoir of Garrard Conley, Boy Erased is one of a plethora of films based on real stories this year. The film…
You can always expect the unexpected from director Yorgos Lanthimos. He has a tendency toward the strange and peculiar, as is the case in his latest film, The Favourite. Set…
Set right around the release of the Vatican II documents, which completely revolutionized the Catholic church in the eyes of the world and within the church itself, Novitiate casts a…
Film has unfortunately seen a slow down in the romantic genre. Over the last few years, with rare exception, there hasn’t really been very many great films about romantic relationships…
“Our Mother,” starring Brigitte Roüan, Zinedine Soualem, Milouda Chaqiq and Samir Guesmi, tells the story of an illiterate French Algerian mother on a journey to her past. As French cinema would have…
While many will always know her as Jackie O., she was Jackie Kennedy during one of the most remembered events in United States history. “Jackie” is a snapshot of one…
The last time Damien Chazelle brought us a film, it was “Whiplash” and it was a cynical, destructive, and angry take on succeeding in making something of oneself in the…
Imagine being a lost five-year-old, far away from home, and not sure how to get back to your family. It’s frightening to think about in the sense that anything could…
Note: This is a repost of my review from the 2015 Middleburg Film Festival. Joachim Trier’s first English-language film and third feature, “Louder Than Bombs,” is heavy in dramatic material…