Category: Film Reviews

Anora Rating Director Sean Baker Screenplay Sean Baker Length 2h 19m Starring Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, Yura Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, Aleksei Serebryakov, Darya Ekamasova, Lindsey Normington MPAA Rating R Original Preview Click Here Review Where is the line between representation and exploitation. Anora comes down on one side of the line but only…

97th Oscar-Nominated Shorts (Documentary) Death by Numbers (Short Film) Rating Director Kim A. Snyder Screenplay Sam Fuentes Length 33m Starring None MPAA Rating Not Rated Review In 2018, a school shooter killed 17 students and injured 18 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. This short film follows the story of one…

97th Oscar-Nominated Shorts (Live Action) A Lien (Short Film) Rating Director David Cutler-Kreutz, Sam Cutler-Kreutz Screenplay David Cutler-Kreutz, Sam Cutler-Kreutz Length 15m Starring Victoria Ratermanis, William Martinez MPAA Rating Not Rated Review In our first alphabetical nominee in the Live Action Short Film category, we have A Lien. The title doesn’t make sense until you…

97th Oscar-Nominated Shorts (Animated) Beautiful Men Rating Director Nicolas Keppens Screenplay Nicolas Keppens Length 18m Starring Peter Van den Begin, Peter De Graef, Tom Dewispelaere, Nayat Sari, Laure Van Medegael MPAA Rating Not Rated Review In Istanbul, three brothers have come to seek treatment at a hair replacement clinic. Unfortunately, the booking is misplaced and…

Emilia Pérez Rating Director Jacques Audiard Screenplay Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Léa Mysius, Nicolas Livecchi (Novel: Boris Razon) Length 2h 12m Starring Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, Edgar Ramirez, Mark Ivanir, Eduardo Aladro, Emiliano Hasan MPAA Rating R Original Preview Click Here Review Conventional stories about drug runners are passé and…

Dune: Part Two Rating Director Denis Villeneuve Screenplay Denis Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts (Novel: Frank Herbert) Length 2h 46m Starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Léa Seydoux, Stellan Skarsgård, Charlotte Rampling MPAA Rating PG-13 Original Preview Click Here Review The challenge of adapting a…

The Wild Robot Rating Director Chris Sanders Screenplay Chris Sanders Length 1h 42m Starring Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, Kit Connor, Bill Nighy, Stephanie Hsu, Matt Berry, Ving Rhames, Mark Hamill, Catherine O’Hara MPAA Rating PG Original Preview Click Here Review Animation means many things to many people. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to appease all of…

Nickel Boys Rating Director RaMell Ross Screenplay RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes (Book: Colson Whitehead) Length 2h 20m Starring Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Jimmie Fails, Ethan Cole Sharp, Daveed Diggs MPAA Rating PG-13 Original Preview Click Here Review A terrific story can only take a film so far, it takes…

The Brutalist Rating Director Brady Corbet Screenplay Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold Length 3h 35m Starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Isaach De Bankolé, Alessandro Nivola, Ariane Labed, Michael Epp, Emma Laird, Jonathan Hyde MPAA Rating R Original Preview Click Here Review The harshness and cruelty of the Holocaust…

Flow Rating Director Gints Zilbalodis Screenplay Matiss Kaza, Gints Zilbalodis Length 1h 25m Starring None MPAA Rating PG Original Preview Click Here Review With a look that embodies the soft hues and patterns of watercolor, one might be hard-pressed to believe Flow is made with computer animation tools. That sense of wonder isn’t reserved for…

Conclave Rating Director Edward Berger Screenplay Peter Straughan (Book: Robert Harris) Length 2h 00m Starring Ralph Fiennes, Jacek Koman, Lucian Msmati, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Thomas Loibl, Brian F. O’Byrne, Isabella Rossellini, Rony Kramer MPAA Rating PG Original Preview Click Here Review Of the myriad governmental and quasi-governmental assemblages, it is challenging to make those…

The Day of the Jackal Rating Director Fred Zinnemann Screenplay Kenneth Ross (Book: Frederick Forsyth) Length 2h 23m Starring Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michael Auclair, Alan Badel, Tony Britton, Denis Carey, Adrien Cayla-Legrand, Cyril Cusack, Maurice Denham, Vernon Dobtcheff, Jacques François, Olga Georges-Picot, Raymond Gérôme, Barrie Ingham, Derek Jacobi, Michael Lonsdale, Jean Martin, Ronald Pickup,…

Wicked, Part I Rating Director Jon M. Chu Screenplay Winnie Holzman, Dana Fox Length 2h 40m Starring Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande-Butera, Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Yeoh, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Marissa Bode, Peter Dinklage MPAA Rating PG Original Preview Click Here Review Influence and emulation are oftentimes the enemy of great filmmaking. It takes a strong…

Bambi Rating Director James Algar, Sam Armstrong, David D. Hand, Graham Heid, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Norman Wright Screenplay Perce Pearce, Larry Morey, George Stallings, Melvin Shaw, Carl Fallberg, Chuck Couch, Ralph Wright (Story: Felix Salten) Length 1h 09m Starring Bobby Stewart, Donnie Dunagan, Hardie Albright, John Sutherland, Peter Behn, Tim Davis, Sam Edwards, Paula…

7th Heaven Rating Director Frank Borzage Screenplay Benjamin Glazer, Katherine Hilliker, H.H. Caldwell (Play: Austin Strong) Length 1h 50m Starring Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Albert Gran, David Butler, Marie Mosquini, Gladys Brockwell, Emile Chautard, Ben Bard, George E. Stone MPAA Rating Approved Review On the cusp of the sound era, 7th Heaven came to define…