Sony Pictures Classics
Scarlett Johansson finds the brilliance of humanity in all of her characters—even in the ancillary folks offering a few lines or two—and layers it deeply within Eleanor the Great.
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The phrase “Your mileage may vary” has never been more apropos, but even with excellent performances and a script that earns uneasy laughs, Oh, Hi! will leave a weird taste in your mouth.
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Jane Austen Wrecked My Life may fall into the romantic comedy genre, but there’s something else afoot here in this examination of what the heart wants and what our bodies give and get.
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In The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, it is written: “What we do now echoes in eternity.” A modern-day update of that would be a line from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s final soliloquy in Hamilton: “What is a legacy? It’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.” We have a choice as to what kind […]
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What drew me in to Call Me By Your Name is the simplicity of its storytelling. It’s a dynamic look at a young man suddenly thrust out of his comfort zone and forced to confront his own budding emotions and sexuality. Thankfully, James Ivory’s script doesn’t make us roll our eyes with forced melodrama and […]
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A disorienting, claustrophobic film that’s so impressively photographed that it’s difficult to endure, Hungarian director László Nemes’ “Son of Saul” transpires in the bowels of the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust, where the disquieting pleas of people being shuffled into gas chambers echo through its cold, dimly lit corridors. Their cries have become ambient noise to Saul Auslaender (Géza […]
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There’s something magical about Lily Tomlin, whether she’s playing adorably dizzy in the Netflix series “Grace and Frankie” or callous and cynical (but somehow still adorable) in writer/director Paul Weitz’s “Grandma”, a comedy of — well, past errors. When teenager Sage (Julia Garner) shows up at the door of her bohemian grandmother Elle (Tomlin) needing […]
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You don’t often see an Oscar-nominated film that could also be considered a guilty pleasure. “Wild Tales” (Relatos salvajes), a diabolically clever anthology from Argentine writer/director Damián Szifron, is such an animal. It offers six revenge-themed stories that deal in everything from social inequality to adultery to corrupt lawyers, an invariably entertaining mix that’s delivered with a pitch-black sense of […]
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As such a prolific and versatile actor, it’s not surprising that Julianne Moore occasionally takes one-note roles in films line “Nonstop” and “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay”; she’s reserving her singular talent for projects like “Still Alice”, an unsentimental tear-jerker that depicts the horrible realities of Alzheimer’s disease in mature, relatable, sometimes even humorous terms. Based on the bestseller by neuroscientist Lisa Genova and adapted for […]
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Jaw-dropping. Eye-popping. Astounding. Amazing. Let’s get those descriptors right out of the way immediately and get straight to the point: The Raid 2: Berandal is, in every way, a vast improvement over its predecessor, The Raid: Redemption, which was already a fantastic action film and one that (I would think) would be hard to top. […]
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