Girls State is the opening night film at this year’s Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, giving Triangle audiences a chance to catch it on the big screen before it drops… Continue reading "Girls State (McBaine and Moss, 2024)"
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival returns to Durham later this week after a one-year hibernation. Cady Voge’s All We Carry gets the coveted Fletcher Hall location, meaning tickets should… Continue reading "All We Carry (Voge, 2024)"
Every time a new Ozon film comes out, I start and eventually abandon an introduction where I try to make a comparison between his work and that of some American… Continue reading "The Crime is Mine (Ozon, 2023)"
There is a scene in Season 3 of Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom where Will (Jeff Daniels) interviews an Environmental Protection Agency official about climate change. The news anchor repeatedly tries… Continue reading "Earth Protectors (de Carbuccia, 2023)"
I can tell you the exact moment the movie lost me. David, our hero, has traveled to the Dominican Republic to sell his deceased father’s “mansion” after receiving the sort… Continue reading "Books & Drinks (Cowper, 2024)"
I haven’t seen a Hallmark film in years, and I find myself largely indifferent to the charms of Bridgerton, the most prominent example of mixed-race casting I can think of… Continue reading "Sense and Sensibility (2024)"
It is hard for me to fault The Road Dance for being about what it is about, but … I have seen so many stories over the yers about women… Continue reading "The Road Dance (Adams, 2021)"
Few critical cliches make me grind my teeth more than “I wanted to like it,” but I don’t know where else to go in a review for this film. Bob… Continue reading "Bob Marley: One Love (Green, 2024)"
The Teachers’ Lounge is a nasty little mousetrap of a movie. It is one of those films where circumstances spiral from bad to worse while basically well-intentioned people get more… Continue reading "The Teachers’ Lounge (Çatak, 2023)"
For nigh on ten years now, I have been telling all of my friends, most of my acquaintances, and anyone else who would listen: “This isn’t Christianity. This is not… Continue reading "God & Country (Partland, 2024)"
