Film Reviews

They Shall Not Grow Old

By Dianne Bennett| 2019-08-09T14:17:46+02:00 August 1st, 2019|

Young men shown enthusiastically enlisting for the chance to go to war – “I’ve never been [...]

By Marcia Yarrow| 2019-07-24T23:05:12+02:00 July 20th, 2019|

Beneath its science fiction veneer, the thrust driving Korean director Bong Jung's 2013 mind-bending "Snowpiercer" was [...]

By William Graebner and Dianne Bennett| 2019-06-10T11:43:26+02:00 June 8th, 2019|

In “Bob Wilson’s Life and Death of Marina Abramovic,” one of the world’s leading performance artists [...]

By William Graebner and Dianne Bennett| 2019-04-22T12:21:41+02:00 April 22nd, 2019|

Those who see “Gloria Bell” hoping to recognize Los Angeles (where the film is set), its [...]

By William Graebner and Dianne Bennett| 2019-03-31T14:46:19+02:00 March 30th, 2019|

It turns out Fred Rogers, the mainstay of low-key children’s television for nearly a half century, [...]

By William Graebner and Dianne Bennett| 2019-04-18T12:11:11+02:00 March 7th, 2019|

Zain (Zain Al Rafeea), the Lebanese protagonist of this powerful, realistic drama about life in a [...]

By Max Oxley| 2019-03-07T23:10:58+02:00 February 22nd, 2019|

Actress Melissa McCarthy has never been one to shy away from playing unlikable characters. Her film [...]

By William Graebner and Dianne Bennett| 2019-03-07T23:12:17+02:00 February 22nd, 2019|

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who made “A Separation” in 2011, and “The Salesman” in 2016, both [...]

By William Graebner and Dianne Bennett| 2019-02-24T21:24:53+02:00 February 20th, 2019|

The “family” living together in one exceedingly crowded room consists of the grandmother, father, mother, adolescent [...]

By William Graebner and Dianne Bennett| 2019-02-24T12:30:01+02:00 February 15th, 2019|

Director Tim Wardle's “Three Identical Strangers” starts simply enough with the 1980 meeting of identical triplets [...]