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)"
The Mission uses the story of John Chau, an American missionary killed trying to make contact with an isolated people group, to examine the broader cultural conflict between religious evangelism… Continue reading "The Mission (McBaine and Moss, 2023)"
In an interview (see link below), director Raoul Peck said that he wanted to make a film in Silver Dolalrs Road that a Black audience could watch and feel “at… Continue reading "Silver Dollar Road (Peck, 2023)"
Slotherhouse is one of the funniest films I’ve seen recently despite its label as a horror and thriller film. It is centered around a senior college student, Emily, who is… Continue reading "Slotherhouse (Goodhue, 2023)"
One of the biggest red flags I look for when approached to cover an “inspirational” or “Christian” film is a marketing campaign that calls on Christians to recruit viewers. Reminiscent… Continue reading "What Rhymes with Reason (Roberts, 2023)"
I find minority reports one of the more difficult kinds of movie reviews to write. On the one hand, I have scoffed at colleagues on social media who sometimes treat… Continue reading "The Creator (Edwards, 2023)"
Surprised by Oxford is a sweet but complicated film. Its many complexities, between the characters and their wants, along with particular inner struggles, piece together a story of love and… Continue reading "Surprised by Oxford (Whitaker, 2023)"
Revoir Paris wasn’t a surprising or overly complex film, however, that wasn’t the intended purpose of the film. Revoir Paris displays not only the extreme kindness of strangers but also… Continue reading "Revoir Paris (Winocour, 2022)"
Nathan-ism is a near-miss of a documentary that has a promising subject and appears to stumble across an important and unexpected angle, but it is ultimately unable to put the… Continue reading "Nathan-ism (Golod, 2023)"
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed A Haunting in Venice. Perhaps I should not have been. Yes, the trailer played up the Halloween connection and made it look… Continue reading "A Haunting in Venice (Branagh, 2023)"
