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Movie & TV Reviews Articles
Overrated: Review of ‘Everything, Everywhere, All at Once’
The "message" of this film is that, hey, your world is is still the best of all possible worlds. “Everything...
Blanchett at the Top of Her Game in Tár
Cate Blanchett is at the top of her game in this drama where orchestral politics and sexual intrigue come together to...
Casting is Everything: A review of Banshees of Inisherin
The Oscar-nominated "Banshees of Inisherin" is a beautifully acted unconventional tale of pre-Facebook "unfriending"...
Cornering a Predator, Bringing them Back Alive: Review of She Said and Thirteen Lives
If you ask me, two films that should definitely be in contention for best film at the Oscars this year are “She Said”...
Re: Dolly de Leon’s Nomination as Best Supporting Actress for the Golden Globes
Her performance in Triangle of Sadness, where she turns from a meek OFW to, well, a not-so-meek OFW, was superb and...
Spellbinding: Review of Decision to Leave by Park Chan Wook
The professional and the personal merge intricately to create a memorable story of crime and passion set in a Korea...
Emancipation Review
You can never fail with a story of someone successfully eluding those chasing him with bloodthirsty dogs. And if it’s...
Lady Chatterley, Senator Leila, and Patriarchy
Not a substitute for the experience of reading a great novel, but this is probably as good as a film adaptation of...
Weimar, Cabaret, and Babylon Berlin
Ever since I did my PhD dissertation, which compared counterrevolutions in Chile, Italy, and Germany, I have been...
Krieg Ist Die Holle: Review of All Quiet on the Western Front
Like “War and Peace,” “All Quiet on the Western Front” is achieving the distinction of having the most film remakes of...
Marooned: Review of Triangle of Sadness
Ruben Ostlund’s “Triangle of Sadness” (2022), which received the Palme d’Or at Cannes, is a new take on a question...