If You Should Leave Before Me has a lot of things going for it, including and especially an understated performance by Shane P. Allen as a grieving man. But like… Continue reading "If You Should Leave Before Me (Anderson and Anderson, 2025)"
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)"
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)"
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)"
Is the fact that its subtitles are too small a legitimate reason for downvoting a film? If I had seen this film at a festival or in a test screening,… Continue reading "The Night is Dark and Colder than the Day (Friedrich, 2025)"
One belief that I have developed over twenty-some years as a film critic is that there are more talented people in the industry than there are projects able to showcase… Continue reading "Cash for Gold (Enriquez and Puette, 2024)"
Celebration (Proslava) is one of those films that one wants to grade on a curve. It has a serious topic — the rise of fascism in Croatia. It is competently… Continue reading "Celebration (Anković, 2024)"
The Waiting Game is a feel-goodish documentary about a charitable organization, the Dropping Dimes Foundation, trying to get the NBA to fund pensions for former American Basketball Association (ABA) players.… Continue reading "The Waiting Game (Husain, 2024)"
My favorite scene in Bonhoeffer (I will forgo the cumbersome subtitle for the body of this review) comes early on when Dietrich’s brother has gone to war and their mother… Continue reading "Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin. (Komarnicki, 2024)"
