Rating: RRuntime: 2 hours, 18 minutesDirector: Todd Phillips Quick Impressions:Remember back when it was fun to be a Batman villain? Watching various film and TV projects, I always came away with the sense that in Gotham, the villains emerged from their confining origins like a butterfly bursting from its chrysalis. …
Rating: RRuntime: 1 hour, 59 minutesDirector: Fede Alvarez Quick Impressions:Back in the spring, I took my daughter to the second Dune and spent the entire movie thinking I was doomed to die within the week. Then last night, the two of us went to see Alien: Romulus, just the second …
Rating: PG-13Runtime: 2 hours, 1 minuteWriters: Julia Cox, Diana NyadDirectors: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Quick Impressions: I approached this movie reluctantly because I kept seeing promotional images of Annette Benning looking determined in a bathing cap, and that just didn’t grab me. (Note: I have absolutely nothing against bathing …
Rating: R Runtime: 1 hour, 57 minutes Writers: Cord Jefferson, Percival Everett Director: Cord Jefferson Quick Impressions: American Fiction is a bit like a mashup of Adaptation, Sorry to Bother You, The Producers, and your typical indie film about a moderately dysfunctional family navigating its way through crisis. On the …
Rating: R Runtime: 1 hour, 57 minutesWriters: Samy Burch, Alex MechanikDirector: Todd Haynes Quick Impressions:“Why are all of this year’s Oscar hopefuls vying to see who can be more…?” I asked my husband, then drew a blank. “Discursive? That’s not right. You know! Sometimes I can be…discursive? That’s not the …
Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 2 hours, 21 minutes Writers: Marcs Gardley, Alice Walker, Marcia Norman Director: Blitz Bazawule Quick Impressions: Taraji P. Henson has convinced me that I need a red dress, a peacock fan, and a boat. Her arrival at Harpo’s Joint is probably the moment in The Color Purple …
Rating: R Runtime: 2 hours, 31 minutesWriters: Justine Triet, Arthur HarariDirector: Justine Triet Quick Impressions:Why when I get a teeny bit behind on awards season fare are there suddenly two potential Oscar nominated films starring German actress Sandra Hüller? “Let’s see,” I said to my husband, looking for something Oscary …
Rating: R Runtime: 2 hours, 21 minutes Writer: Emerald Fennell Director: Emerald Fennell Quick Impressions:I have strong feelings about Promising Young Woman. That one took me by surprise. Pretty much every year there’s a movie I don’t have huge expectations for that ends up knocking me for a loop. I …
Rating: R Runtime: 2 hours, 9 minutes Writers: Bradley Cooper, Josh Singer Music By: Leonard Bernstein Director: Bradley Cooper Quick Impressions: Maybe I was fooled into thinking Lydia Tár was a real person for at least three hours. And maybe I don’t know how to clean a bassoon properly or …
Rating: RRuntime: 2 hours, 21 minutesWriter: Tony McNamaraDirector: Yorgos Lanthimos Quick Impressions:What a movie! We went in completely cold, knowing only that Poor Things recently got some Critics Choice and Golden Globe nominations. Just before we left the house, I also happened to see that Mark Ruffalo won Best Supporting …
