The Courier
Far from the usual take on the Cuban Missile Crisis, “The Courier” seems worlds away from the tense drama of [...]
Annette
New film critic Steve Piazza begins his run with a look at a highly-acclaimed but immensely quirky musical that comes out bittersweet.
COVID, meet SCABET
I was always a fan of apocalypse movies. Not the kind that overwhelms you with monsters and aliens, and special [...]
No Hollywood ending
If widescreen Hollywood ever had just cause to lapse into melancholy about its future prospects, that time is now. With [...]
The invisible stalker
In H.G. Wells’s 1897 “The Invisible Man,” Griffin, a scientist and student of optics, carries out a rogue experiment to [...]
“Improving” the inferno
Perhaps the best way of approaching Sam Mendes's hell-on-earth World War I saga "1917" is by describing its uncomplicated premise. [...]
Gerwig’s “Little Women”
Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" has made the movie rounds for decades. Though set in the Civil War period, her [...]
Two popes (who cheat theater)
Fernando Meirelles's "The Two Popes" should have been a stage play. In such a play, with Jonathan Pryce as the [...]
Mother’s back
In Mitzi Pierone's sorcery and female-brokered horror, two on-the-lam city drug dealers — Petula (Imogen Waterhouse) and Tilda (Sasha Hay) [...]
Ford v Ferrari
But for a twist of fate, James Mangold's fine auto racing thriller would have lost its alliterative title. In 1961, [...]
For love of craft
Film critic Max Oxley sees Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman" as yet another demonstration of the aging director's devotion to character-rich storytelling.