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Malcolm & Marie (2021)

Drama Rated R

“Did a movie like Malcolm & Marie stand a chance with critics?”

Fun Sunday! (1935)

Comedy Rated NR

“…not nearly enough Jacques Tati…”

Identifying Features (2021)

Drama Rated NR

“…lets patient observation and careful framing do most of the talking.”

Brute Wanted (1934)

Comedy Rated NR

“…a very early Jacques Tati short that only slightly hints at the genius to come.”

News of the World (2020)

Drama Rated PG-13

“…a Hanks performance where there isn’t much surprise in those kindly eyes.”

Promising Young Woman (2020)

Drama Rated R

“…shows impressive filmmaking promise and pulses with real pain.”

Jour de Fete (1949)

Comedy Rated NR

“…freewheelingly captures a traveling carnival’s effects on a small French village.”

Top Ten Films of 2020 (2020)

Drama Rated NR

“COVID-19 came out of nowhere to dominate 2020, but the best movies of the year wrestled with realities we’ve long known.”

Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

“There might not be 84 minutes of Wonder Woman in the two-and-a-half-hour Wonder Woman 1984…”

Soul (2020)

Family Rated PG

“…an exercise in psychedelic existentialism that astonishingly increases in inventiveness as it goes along.”

Recent Reviews

Z (1969)

Drama Rated NR

“. . . a bitter, brilliant pill to swallow.”

Power Ballad (2026)

Drama Rated R

“If you weren’t a dad before seeing Power Ballad, you’d likely be transformed into one by the movie’s end.”

Backrooms (2026)

Horror Rated R

“Parsons proves to be an expert manipulator of space with the camera.”


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