Given that Hello Beautiful‘s sole reason for being seems to be to induce sympathy for a woman with breast cancer, saying that it attempts to do absolutely nothing else feels… Continue reading "Hello Beautiful (Hamzeh, 2025)"
If one grows up watching a lot of television or going to the movies, one develops positive associations with any number of actors or actresses who participated in beloved projects.… Continue reading "Relative Control (Yachin, 2025)"
Good Bad Things is a winsome indie romance from Music Box about a guy with Muscular Dystrophy who finds the woman of his dreams (of all our dreams really) on… Continue reading "Good Bad Things (Stanger, 2024)"
Kim A. Snyder’s Newtown was one of my favorite films of 2016, so I walked into The Librarians with understandably high expectations. As with Snyder’s gut-punching portrait of Sandy Hook… Continue reading "The Librarians (Snyder, 2025)"
Speak is this year’s feel-good film at Full Frame, and it comes with all the feels one wants and needs from a festival crowd-pleaser. I have mentioned elsewhere that film… Continue reading "Speak (Tiexiera and Mossman, 2025)"
Blue Road is a sad film, at times angry but never bitter. The title originates from a line in one of O’Brien’s early books that her husband insisted was wrong… Continue reading "Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story (O’Shea, 2024)"
I spent the first ninety minutes of WIlliam Tell muttering, “Okay, this is better than I expected.” I spent the last forty minutes ready for it to be over. The… Continue reading "William Tell (Hamm, 2024)"
King of Kings is neither the best nor the worst animated Jesus film I have seen. Whether that is an endorsement depends largely on the target audience. After the unexpected… Continue reading "King of Kings (Seong-ho Jang, 2025)"
I have been going to Full Frame for almost fifteen years, and Mistress Dispeller is the only film I can think of that I’ve screened at the festival where I… Continue reading "Mistress Dispeller (Lo, 2025)"
I should have plenty of feature reviews from this year’s festival, but I also wanted to set up a page for some shorts or smaller films that help make this… Continue reading "Full Frame 2025 — Quick Hits"
