Flee (2021) Film Review
I left “Flee” with that “floating-on-air feeling” that you get after seeing something special. After seeing a masterpiece.
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Category: Epic
The Tale of King Crab (2022) Film Review
The directors are extremely cine-literate. However, their references never seemed forced and I basked in their cinematic vision.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) – Film Review
Remember Yeoh in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”? This is a similar tongue-in-cheek, highly physical, yet surprisingly, touching performance.
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The Green Knight (2021) Film Review
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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White Noise (2022) Film Review
Our savior is Driver, who, against all odds, manages to give another really good performance in inhospitable settings.
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Babylon (2022) Film Review
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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Bardo (2022) Film Review
The result is an exhausting piece of self-indulgent filmmaking filled with moments of greatness with one indelible image after another.
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Ben Hur (1959) Film Review
If you believe Gore Vidal it was all because of a lover’s spat. Wyler and Boyd were in on the ruse, and Boyd played his scenes that way, but Heston was not.
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Spartacus (1960) Film Review
The Kirk Douglas/Stanley Kubrick epic has not aged well but the supporting cast,, particularly Laurence Olivier and Peter Ustinov, make it worth seeing.
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Billy Budd (1962) Film Review
Many, including gay composer Benjamin Britton and his famous opera, maintain that there is an undercurrent of homoeroticism between the three leads.
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The Swimmer (1968) Film Review
With a near-great performance by Burt Lancaster as the title character who “swims his way home” through his “river” of backyard swimming pools…
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