• October 30, 2025
• At Home, Crime, Drama, Mystery

I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone sweat in a movie as much as poor Colin Farrell in Ballad of a Small Player. Whether it’s from the constant, shirt-soaking...

• September 18, 2025
• At Home, Drama, Fantasy, Romance

In A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, there’s an underlying assumption that everyone—certainly everyone who shows up at a wedding—should be coupled up. David (Colin Farrell) and Sarah (Margot Robbie)...

• January 2, 2023
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

I loathe films such as The Banshees Of Inisherin. Oh, I love a good tragedy; I’m a sucker for ’em. But a senseless tragedy? Feck that. Isn’t life full...

• June 30, 2017
• At Home, Drama

Spanish moss. Oak-lined plantation roads. Shimmering lazy heat. A white columned mansion. Genteel young Southern ladies in white dresses practicing their French verb conjugation. It seems idyllic, except it...

• July 25, 2014
• At Home, Drama, Fantasy, Romance

A centuries-spanning fantasy romance, Winter’s Tale stumbles across head-scratching issues almost immediately. In 1895 New York City, an infant is dropped into a model ship into the Hudson River...

• September 26, 2012
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction, Thriller

Beckinsale is Lori, the mild-mannered-wife-turned-ruthless-government-agent in this updated, CGi-heavy version of the 1990 film of the same name, and both are based on a short story by Philip K....

• August 28, 2006
• At Home, Drama

Terrence Malick doesn’t know it, but he’s in the wrong business. He was born to be a nature photographer, yet something compels him to wrap actors and stories around...

• March 29, 2006
• At Home, Drama, Romance

I’d be willing to bet the dust doesn’t have any answers for me, but that’s okay because – just like dust! – the memory of this tedious film will...