Genre Reviews

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Glass (2019)

Glass (2019)

To prepare to see Glass, I watched Split over the weekend. I found it to be a tight film with a fantastic performance by James McAvoy as a psychopath...

Linda
Burning (Beoning) (2018)

Burning (Beoning) (2018)

Jong-su (Ah-In Yoo), an amiable slacker meets-cute with cute Hae-mi (Jong-seo Jeon) one day. He’s the kind of passive but friendly kind of guy who can get steamrolled by...

Linda
Long Shot (2019)

Long Shot (2019)

I’m sure I’m not the only one to notice the sub-genre of romantic comedies where a completely neurotic, dorky, egotistical New York white male becomes romantic catnip to an...

Linda
Red Joan (2018)

Red Joan (2018)

Octogenarian Judi Dench can do it all. She can play smart, fierce and sexy (see her in the more recent James Bond films). She can be a queen (a...

Linda
Stockholm (2018)

Stockholm (2018)

The term “Stockholm Syndrome” where the captured feel an affinity with and identify with their captors (think of Patty Hearst for instance), has been around in the media so...

Linda
Wildlife (2018)

Wildlife (2018)

There is a scene in Wildlife that surprises with its quiet fury. A teenage boy (Ed Oxenbould) is brought to the edge of a wildfire that his father has...

Linda
Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Avengers: Endgame doesn’t have much faith in the resilience of humanity. Five years after Thanos (Josh Brolin) made half of Earth’s (and the universe’s) population disintegrate into ash with...

Linda
Mary Queen of Scots (2018)

Mary Queen of Scots (2018)

There’s a scene in this lush but strangely hollow biopic of the titular monarch that finds its heroine (Saoirse Ronan) meeting her estranged cousin, Queen Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie),...

Vickie
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2019)

Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2019)

McCarthy stars as Israel, an acerbic, exceedingly grumpy (to her own detriment) writer with mounting debt and a problem with alcohol, whose career hits the skids after a streak...

Linda
Boy Erased (2018)

Boy Erased (2018)

In Boy Erased, Lucas Hedges shows that his Oscar nomination was no fluke. As Southern boy Jared Eamons, he’s a good kid that seems to live on the periphery...

Linda
The Kid Who Would Be King (2019)

The Kid Who Would Be King (2019)

Alex (Louis Ashbourne Serkis) is an ordinary 12-year-old boy, if a bit earnest and solemn for his years. He seems to have the weight of the world on his...

Linda
Widows (2018)

Widows (2018)

In the first few minutes of Widows, a heist goes wrong, and the four criminals are killed by the cops. The ensuing story is (refreshingly) about the mess that...

Linda