Movie Review: Six Movies “Underwater” Is Similar To But Worse Than
In reviewing, it’s a cliché to cite other films and say a movie is something like “Alien meets The Abyss” or “Gravity on speed.” It’s also not entirely fair to cite better films, insofar as if you go...
View ArticleMovie Review: “Call of the Wild” Stars Harrison Ford and Man’s Best CGI Friend
George Lucas was inspired to create Chewbacca, Han Solo’s furry copilot, when he saw his wife running errands with the family dog in the passenger seat of her car. It’s only apt, then, that after...
View ArticleReview: “Ancient Caves” at the Science Museum of Minnesota’s Omnitheater Sets...
Ancient Caves. A journey hundreds of feet below the earth, into palatial caverns and underwater forests of translucent crystals, captured in immersive visual splendor. You’re in, right? You don’t need...
View ArticleMovie Review: “Yes, God, Yes”: Finally, a Horror Film About Face-to-Face...
Our parish had that cool young priest, the kind with the bearded paternal buttoned-down hippie vibe of Michael Gross on Family Ties. He liked hearing confession face-to-face, making it more of a...
View ArticleMovie Review: “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” Fails To Touch the Soul
Revisiting my past reviews to post on Letterboxd, I was reminded of my take on the 2011 drama Circumstance, about the lives of lesbians in Iran. “I walked in to Circumstance pretty sure that life as a...
View ArticleMovie Review: “Dune” is a Page-Turner of a Movie
“I just hope we’re back in theaters for Dune,” I said last summer as I listened to the superb audiobook edition of Frank Herbert’s classic 1965 science fiction novel. And so we were: I saw Denis...
View ArticleMovie Review: “The French Dispatch” Is Sumptuous Storytelling
I was still uninitiated, a sophomore in college, when I found my friend reading a copy of The New Yorker while he sat at his dining hall job, swiping student IDs. “You really like that, huh?” I asked...
View ArticleMovie Review: Documentary “Julia” Cheers for Child
During a montage of media appearances, Julia features a clip of Chef Child with Fred Rogers, making spaghetti Marco Polo in 1974. There, together on screen, are two 20th century icons that have...
View ArticleMovie Review: “Moonfall” is Majestically Dumb
At one, brief, point while watching Roland Emmerich’s new movie Moonfall, I thought that it could finally be a Space Shuttle successor to Space Camp, the 1986 movie where a well-meaning robot launches...
View ArticleMovie review: “Emily” plays favorites with the Brontë sisters
Frances O’Connor, writer and director of Emily, seems reluctant to spell out her characters’ motivations. That drags on the film, but as a stylistic move it’s understandable given that this is a movie...
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