Till (2022) Film Review B+
The 2023 Best Actress Oscar Goes To…Danielle Deadwyler in Till. And as she reaches the volta of her magnificent speech she does something extraordinary…
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Category: Drama
The Green Knight (2021) Film Review B+
David Lowery’s enthralling “The Green Knight”. Alicia Vikander does double duty as a peasant girl, and the mistress of a mysterious household.
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The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) Film Review B+
“The Tragedy of Macbeth” is filled with brilliant touches. The major reason to see this movie is Kathryn Hunter who plays all three witches.
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Monica (2023) Film Review B
Pallaoro is blessed with two actresses who are able to convey oceans of emotion with their eyes and Lysette, a real-life trans actress, is wonderful.
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Rotting in The Sun (2023) Self-Referential with Penises Galore. B
Now, after ten years in the (relative) wilderness, Saavedra and Silva (and Silva’s co-screenwriter Peirano) have returned with a delicious slice of meta.
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Sick of Myself (2023) Film Review B
If you can take moments of extreme gore and disfigurement – it succeeds more as a horror movie than as a piece of social satire – you could do worse.
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The Whale (2022) Film Review B
As Charlie, an overweight teacher, Brendan Fraser gives a very sweet and appealing performance in director Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale”.
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White Noise (2022) Film Review B
Our savior is Driver, who, against all odds, manages to give another really good performance in inhospitable settings.
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Jockey (2021) Film Review B
Collins and Parker have a wonderful rapport based on their shared love of horses, and there might be something deeper between them.
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Tick, tick…Boom! (2021) Film Review B
Although we know the eventual outcome, there is no great tragedy awaiting us at the end of the movie. In fact, it is a celebration of life.
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Amerikatsi (2023) Armenia’s First to Make the Shortlist B-
The result is a film that walks a tightrope but contains some beautiful moments, even if, at times, it threatens to topple over.
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Dream Scenario (2023) Runs Out of Ideas….Fast B-
There are too many scenes straight out of Bunuel’s famously scathing “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie”. Gradually, you feel this movie has been stolen.
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Fremont (2023) The Film’s Nonchalant Charm Wins You Over B-
In the second hour, the movie enters a different realm due to the appearance of Jeremy Allen White and his palpable chemistry with our leading lady.
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Origin (2023) (B-) vs 13th (2016) (A-) Narrative vs Documentary
I felt that the constraints of the narrative feature may not have fully captured the depth and complexity of Wilkerson’s analysis of caste and its impact on society.
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Return to Seoul (2023) Film Review B-
Director Davy Chou likes to have his main character bottle up their emotions and then express these feelings in a couple of spectacular dance sequences.
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She Came to Me (2023) Rebecca Miller’s Sweet and Quirky Comedy Drama. B-
With “She Came to Me” we have the same quirky Miller, however, although the ideas are there they never come together to form a concrete whole.
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Babylon (2022) Film Review B-
I had no problem sitting through the movie’s bloated 180-minute running because, through all of this nothingness, five actors manage to make lasting impressions
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Blonde (2022) Ana is Sensational as Marilyn B-
Immersing herself completely in the role of Norma Jean/Marilyn Monroe, Ana de Armas is sensational. And exhausting!
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Tár (2022) Film Review B-
However, no one seems to have stopped and thought about the age difference between these two maestros. By my calculations, Lenny would have been teaching Lydia when she was five years old!
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Shiva Baby (2021) Film Review B-
Finally, a toast, amid all this great food, to four extraordinarily talented actresses: Sennott, Draper, Gordon, and Argon.
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Fully Realized Humans (2020) Film Review B-
Jess Wexler and Joshua Leonard have such a natural chemistry that I assumed that they were a couple in real-life.
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Pieces of a Woman (2020) Film Review C+
How can an actress who is pushing ninety be the mother of an actress in her late twenties or early thirties? Not impossible, but implausible.
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Asteroid City (2023) Film Review C
“Asteroid City” takes on too much and leaves us with too little. However, there are some funny inventions by our Junior Stargazers and other pleasures.
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The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) Film Review A+
“Ripley”, Minghella’s masterpiece, boasts Matt Damon’s best performance plus stunning turns by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jude Law.
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Suspiria (1976) Dario Argento’s Cabal of Lesbian Witches A-
Italian director Dario Argento’s supernatural horror sensation! Jessica Harper is a ballet student whose school is a front for a coven of lesbian witches.
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Sebastiane (1976) Derek Jarman’s Flaccid Directorial Debut C-
What seemed revolutionary in 1976 seems pretty mediocre today. More a series of tableaux vivants than an actual narrative feature, it wears out its welcome.
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Carrie (1976) Film Review A+
Brian De Palma’s masterpiece and one of the GREAT HORROR MOVIES with tremendous performances from Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie. The unforgettable score is by Pino Donaggio.
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Ode to Billy Joe (1976) Film Review C
Why did Billy Joe McAllister jump off the Tallahassee Bridge? The answer, according to director Max Baer, is because he slept with a man.
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The Eiger Sanction (1975) Cinema’s First Queer Canine D+
When we first meet FAGGOT he is pleasuring himself on Eastwood’s shoe. Who was the dog who played him? His owner, an effete Jack Cassidy, trained the little rascal to do that to every man who stopped by.
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Fox and His Friends (1975) B+ Rated: Seventeen Fassbinder Films.
A fascinating look at gay life in the seventies, it’s one of a dozen great movies Fassbinder wrote and directed in the decade before his untimely death.
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