2019
This telling of White Snake adds an action-fantasy plot to its romance story, and feels like a mesh of other fantasy films you’ve seen before.
The Lodge is inventive, it’s clever and it’s pretty damn spooky. If you’re a horror fan, don’t let this one slip under the radar.
The Wild Goose Lake’s glaring missteps aren’t enough to sink the film and its overall affect, which remains consistent and engaging throughout.
The Times of Bill Cunningham would serve better as an extras-feature on a Blu-Ray than as the stand-alone documentary it is.
For such a quietly paced film, The Assistant certainly tackles a very serious topic through an intensely contemplative lens.
Each of these stories featured an intriguing idea with theirr own successes, yet the compilation of Grim Woods leaves much to be desired.
Manara is a thoughtful and quietly powerful short film, and feels particularly timely, deserving to be a part of the conversation
Pivoting from steely resolve to emotional profundity, the brilliant evolution in its final moments cements The Whistlers as an unconventionally thoughtful experience.
It has been all too easy for many to forget about what happened and is still happening in Flint. That alone should make this documentary essential viewing.
The Professor and the Madman limps out as a woefully half-baked and overcooked spectacle that mistakes reality for relevance.
The Patient Man is a well-constructed thriller which deserves to be seen not only on the strengths of its convictions, but also for what it aims to achieve.
The Personal History of David Copperfield is a truly sincere retelling of Dickens’ story, one that taps into a new contemporary edge and presents itself in a distinctly cinematic fashion.
The story isn’t particularly revelatory, but the idiosyncratic humor and Zoey Deutch make Buffaloed a fun film.
For a movie like And Then We Danced, so steeped in the traditional culture of Georgian dance, to embrace its taboo subject matter is defiance, artistically rendered.
Jojo Rabbit is a movie that delivers on its promise of humor, yet it leaves a thought provoking imagery that speaks to the true prowess of the message behind the satire.