Unlike many modern Westerns, which busy themselves with reinventing the genre or tearing down the mythos of frontier life, News just delivers a good old-fashioned movie.
Todd Wofford
[su_dropcap size="5"]T[/su_dropcap]he Night wasn't made with the foresight of what the world would look like in 2020, but it certainly feels that way. This ugly, tempestuous year has given us all a kinship with the protagonists of the film: We're all bricked into our homes, islanded by our fears and anxieties in a long night…
Promising Young Woman’s style may not be for all tastes, but hidden within its unique comedy is a message everybody needs to hear.
Acasa is one of those rare films that raises difficult questions, and never promises any answers, if the answers even exist at all.
Music flows through Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom like a conduit, conducting the passion, pain, and pride of all the characters who play it.
Ultimately, the story never attains the dramatic lift for which it aspires, and the result is a movie that rings surprisingly hollow.
American Utopia was the perfect end to a lousy day. Byrne’s music felt like rain–rinsing, cleansing, healing.
The terror of where we are adds a frightening subtext to this cautionary tale of where we might be headed.
All this extra huffing and puffing somehow leads to diminishing returns–more hiking for less mountain.
