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Hamnet (2025)

Hamnet (2025)

An Oscar-winner for the lovely and introspective Nomadland, director Chloé Zhao is back in her wheelhouse with another visually lovely, emotionally intimate drama. Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s novel of...

Linda
Tuesday (2023)

Tuesday (2023)

Death taking the shape of a filthy bedraggled macaw—who shows up to take life with the fanning of a wing—is a fascinating, kind of beautiful image. As Death appears...

Linda
A Good Person

Florence Pugh and Morgan Freeman pull your heartstrings in ‘A Good Person’ trailer

Writer/director Zach Braff’s is back with another film of wistful melancholy… and that’s not a bad thing! Especially when you have the wonderful pairing of Florence Pugh (who can...

Linda
Mass (2021)

Mass (2021)

In what is probably the stagiest movie I’ve ever seen that was not actually a stage adaptation, Mass is a claustrophobic, extremely intimate experience where you feel trapped in...

Linda
Land (2021)

Land (2021)

While visiting friends in the rural area around Missoula, Montana, I heard about what the locals termed “mountain bachelors”. These were guys who purposely had fallen off the grid,...

Linda
Collateral Beauty (2016)

Collateral Beauty (2016)

Howard (Will Smith) was a once dynamic creative executive, who let his company on charisma and talent. But now he is a broken, shell of a man after the...

Linda
Rabbit Hole

Rabbit Hole

Becca (Nicole Kidman) and Howie (Aaron Eckhart) are a long-married couple dealing with the grief of losing their only child. Their 4-year-old son was hit by a car 8...

Linda
The Door in the Floor

The Door in the Floor

I had heard buzz about The Door in the Floor when it was initially released, especially for Jeff Bridges’ performance (which doesn’t surprise me, as he is one of...

Linda
P.S. I Love You

P.S. I Love You

In the opening scene of the tear-jerking romance P.S. I Love You, we meet Holly and Gerry Kennedy (Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler). They got married young, and are...

Linda
Moonlight Mile

Moonlight Mile (2002)

One of my favorite things about getting the chance to see movies before they open theatrically is being able to watch a film with virgin eyes. To see it...

Vickie
In the Bedroom (2001)

In the Bedroom (2001)

There has already been much criticism of reviewers giving away too much of the plot beforehand, which spoils somewhat of the “surprise” of the film, so I’ll do my...

Linda