The Road Dance (Adams, 2021)
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)"
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)"
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)"
Interpreters Wanted puts a human face on a political issue so seemingly one-sided that it is hard not to fault the film for refusing to be angrier and failing to… Continue reading "Interpreters Wanted (Ham, 2024)"
William Hart shows up with enough receipts in Lead and Copper to dismay even the most hardened pessimists and persuade … who exactly? That’s not meant as an indictment of… Continue reading "Lead and Copper (Hart, 2023)"
Scrapper, although simple, holds a lot of charm between the characters, their development throughout the film, and the story. Scrapper is about a twelve-year-old girl, Georgie, who lost her mother… Continue reading "Scrapper (Regan, 2023)"
When I heard that there would be a second season of this French television serial, I wasn’t sure how I felt about it. I liked Paris Police 1900. But I… Continue reading "Paris Police 1905"
It’s not so much that those who forget the past repeat it; it’s that those who never foreground the past forget what they already know. In America, we know —… Continue reading "A Binding Truth (Woehrle, 2023)"
Killers of the Flower Moon is a new film from Martin Scorsese, which means the first, maybe only, question is whether it is a favorite to win Best Picture. The… Continue reading "Killers of the Flower Moon (Scorsese, 2023)"
The first twenty minutes of Oliver Pearn’s On the Line is pretty swell. With its simple title cards, sepia coloring, and sixties setting, the film looks like a long-lost Hitchcock… Continue reading "On the Line (Pearn, 2023)"