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)"
Has it really been over a quarter of a century since the events chornicled in Battle in Seattle? I haven’t thought much about the end-of-the-century protests to the first meeting… Continue reading "WTO/99"
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival has announced its programming for the 2025 festival, and one of the most anticipated films is Helen and the Bear. The film, a portrait… Continue reading "Helen and the Bear (Blair, 2025)"
Warning: This review may be considered to contain plot spoilers. Birdsong is hard movie to recommend even though the part of me that naturally roots for new talent wants to… Continue reading "Birdsong (Amariz, 2025)"
In Hollywood vs. America, Michael Medved’s at-times contemptuous description of the industry he covers and the colleagues he covers it with, he shares an anecdote about a critic (who he… Continue reading "Snow White (Webb, 2025)"
The false flag in the new Captain America film turns out to be the word “Brave.” It is as safe and nondescript as a film about a mentally unhinged American… Continue reading "Captain America: Brave New World (Onah, 2025)"
You Are Cordially Invited strives to find comedy somewhere outside of sitcom misunderstandings. It finds a little in farce — wrestling an alligator — but not enough to differentiate itself… Continue reading "You Are Cordially Invited (Stoller, 2025)"
I admired and respected September 5 as a work of art, but I confess that my interpretation of it seemed so out of step with those I saw it with… Continue reading "September 5 (Fenbaum, 2024)"
Wicked is a bright, loud paintball splatter of a movie — one that seems to me to be as uncertain of what it wants to be as it is how… Continue reading "Wicked (Chu, 2024)"
On the pitch level, Red One sounds as though it should be critic-proof. The always likable Dwayne Johnson stars as an elf who heads Santa’s security team only to see… Continue reading "Red One (Kasdan, 2024)"
