An incredibly funny film, An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn is a wonderful example of a film that is able to be surreal, comic, and emotional – even if the ending is really very, very bad.
Green Book is cinematic comfort food, equipped with witty performances and the aura of social importance, yet undistinguishable from the tons of other polite Oscar dramas that came before it.
There has never been a film that so thoroughly captures the excitement and danger of space travel as First Man, capturing that intoxicating mix of euphoria and terror of the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing.
A ghost of the film it tries to summon, The Secret of Marrowbone is unable to pull everything together and its disparate elements fail to coalesce into anything approaching satisfying.