Bad Education calls to mind the great Alexander Payne film Election, with its students who are smarter and savvier than you’d expect and teachers who aren’t as mature and responsible as you’d hope. | Continue reading
A review of the Acorn TV mini-series Deadwater Fell. | Continue reading
A preview of the best of Quibi. | Continue reading
Buñuel's understanding of human behavior is timeless, and we can all learn a thing or two when examining his work with the current pandemic in mind. | Continue reading
A brief on today's Roger Ebert takeover to mark the anniversary of his death. | Continue reading
The thriller occupies the same territory as countless science fiction movies about deadly invasions and high-tech conspiracies, but has been made with intelligence and an appealing human dimension. | Continue reading
This review originally ran on June 22, 1969 and is being re-published now for Day4Empathy 2020.The movies have done a lot of borrowing during their long climb to the status of an art form, but they've also invented an approach or two. It is impossible to think of gangsters or cow … | Continue reading
What makes this material really work is the low-key approach of the writer-director, Bill Forsyth. | Continue reading
It is not an entirely successful movie, but it is new and fresh and not shy of taking chances. | Continue reading
One of the best horror films ever made. | Continue reading
One of the hallmarks of Brooks' movie humor has been his willingness to embrace excess. | Continue reading
Because this movie is not a tearjerker but an intelligent examination of a bizarre human condition, it's up to De Niro to make Leonard not an object of sympathy, but a person who helps us wonder about our own tenuous grasp on the world around us. | Continue reading
Chaz Ebert's Day4Empathy message of 2020 on the seventh year after Roger Ebert's death and in light of the coronavirus pandemic. | Continue reading
A review of the WWII drama series World on Fire, which premieres stateside on PBS on April 5. | Continue reading
A review of Doom Eternal. | Continue reading
Goodman and Durrance have made a dense, numbers-driven subject very accessible and they expertly balance the overwhelming bleakness and cynicism of the voter suppression effort with the integrity of those who are fighting it. | Continue reading
There just isn’t much of a movie here, or even much of an homage movie when you compare it to its clear influences like 48 Hours and Lethal Weapon. | Continue reading
It creates a true picture of the impact of these murders and an argument that they were covered up by a city on the rise and maybe even a President who claimed to be color-blind. | Continue reading
Sadly, the promise of the first half of Pooka Lives! doesn’t really pay off in the second half or the non-ending, but there’s still enough to like here to place it in the top tier of Into the Dark movies, and allow us to look forward to the inevitable Pooka: A New Beginning! | Continue reading
The novelty alone of seeing Hayes play a woman is not enough to recommend this, although he does offer sporadic glimmers of vulnerability and humanity. | Continue reading
Almost Love has problems other than being jarringly out of date with How We Live Now. | Continue reading
While Clover is a mess, it’s also rarely boring. | Continue reading
Most of the movie keeps up the narrative suspense against a gorgeous but bleak minimalistic backdrop of rainy, windswept mountains. | Continue reading
An interview with Malgorzata Szumowska about her English-language debut, The Other Lamb. | Continue reading
The newest on Blu-ray and streaming includes 1917, The Grudge, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and Leave Her to Heaven. | Continue reading
On Shudder's new docuseries Cursed Films. | Continue reading
An interview with show co-creator Dana Fox and director Jon M. Chu about the new AppleTV series, Home Before Dark. | Continue reading
Rarely have I been more frustrated by a documentary production’s formal choices and how they interfere with the engaging content of the story they’re trying to tell than I was during Netflix’s latest true crime docu-series. | Continue reading
A review of a new Netflix sketch comedy show. | Continue reading
A video essay celebrating Richard Lester's maligned masterpiece, Juggernaut. | Continue reading
A review of the new Apple TV+ mystery series Home Before Dark, which premieres on Friday, April 3. | Continue reading
A review of Amazon's new sci-fi series, Tales from the Loop, premiering Friday, April 3rd. | Continue reading
Five highlights set to screen at the 12th Annual ReelAbilities Film Festival, running Tuesday, March 31st, through Monday, April 6th, exclusively online. | Continue reading
An interview with the director of The Banker. | Continue reading