Echo Valley (2025) Queer Film. Another Julianne Moore Triumph. B+
Director Michael Pearce moves with visceral precision and Julianne Moore shows us, yet again, what a magnificent actress she can be.
Read More
Day: April 1, 2026
The History of Sound (2025) Queer Film B-
After a while, though, you begin to feel beaten down by the sheer refinement of it all. The perfectly framed, perfectly edited tableaux. The exquisite, sparingly used music score. The subtle, to the point of being abstruse, performances of the stars
Read More
One Battle After Another (2025) Watch it on your cell phone. C+
When you take away all the violence and the mayhem, this is a two daddies fighting over one baby movie. Strip away the facade, it’s old-time Hollywood schmaltz.
Read More
Eileen (2023) Hits All the Right Buttons (A)
Oldroyd pulls out all the stops and the three actresses complement one another so perfectly that we end up savoring 2023’s best scene.
Read More
Saltburn (2023) Emerald Fennell’s Sophomore Triumph A
Fennell’s writing and directing are brilliantly inventive, with humor, tragedy, and horror mixing perfectly. She gets immense support from her cinematographer, Linus Sandgren, whose work here is truly breathtaking.
Read More