Although armed with a great setup, its payoff is a disappointment.
A charming and funny take on the effects of a devastatingly bad breakup.
Director Nora Fingscheidt’s film of Amy Liptrot’s 2016 memoir, The Outrun, showcases Saoirse Ronan’s considerable talent. Ronan plays a fictionalized version of the author, named Rona, who returns fro...
At one point in Wolfs, a mobster unleashes a storm of bullets at George Clooney and Brad Pitt, shouting, “You’re not wolfs! You’re buddies!” That’s the central idea of director Jon Watts’ new movie fo...
Originally developed as a stage drama, Christy Hall’s directing debut, Daddio, plays like a movie version of HBO’s 1990s phenomenon, Taxicab Confessions. It’s a naturally dramatic arena. The spatial l...
Night Shift is an independent thriller made for a reported $500,000 during the pandemic. That description should begin to set expectations about the scope and reach of what the ensuing 82 minutes have...
Jerry Seinfeld’s Unfrosted answers the question: How did the breakfast food wizards at Kellogg’s invent Pop-Tarts? But the more compelling question is this: How did a comedy starring some of the funni...
“This property comes with a special terror,” warns Peter Mullan, who plays the late owner of a pub in which an evil presence lurks. Setting the mood, nothing in Baghead comes so close to the imposing ...
In Io Capitano (I Captain), a harrowing account of two boys traveling 3,500 miles from Dakar to Sicily, director Matteo Garrone charts an episodic journey. It spans the Nigerien desert; stops for a ni...
