Tag: At The Movies
Two New Comedies: One Touching the Absurd and a Second Just...
Official Competition
An aged pharma multimillionaire Humberto Suárez (José Luis Gomez), celebrating his 80th birthday, is musing on his legacy and rejects the idea of...
At The Movies
Downton Abbey: A New Era
They’re back! No, no, I do not mean another “Chucky” horror flick but rather another chapter of the “Downton Abbey”...
Two New Pictures: A French Bagatelle and an Old School Western
“The Rose Maker”
Arriving just in time for spring comes a new French crowd-pleaser, all about roses ‒ and the people who love and grow...
Two Dramas: One Utterly Restrained, One Relentlessly Gripping
Mothering Sunday
Many English novels of the 20th C. had a restrained, guarded tone, where disclosures and motives were quietly or elliptically revealed: dramas of...
Movies: A Look at an American Prison Tragedy
Every year during Oscar season, Academy voters come up with a winning list of five films for the Best Feature Documentary category. Here are...
A Lively New Period Musical and Some Stunning Documentaries
Cyrano
“Cyrano de Bergerac,” a 1897 drama by Edmund Rostand has had dozens of iterations with its evergreen tale of unrequited love. Its latest movie...
At the Movies: Two Major Directors’ Latest
“The French Dispatch”
From director Wes Anderson comes his 10th feature, “The French Dispatch,” which he has described as “a love letter to journalists set...
Two Autumn Films
“Worth” follows the horrific 9/11 attacks, after Congress has appointed renowned mediator Kenneth Feinberg (Michael Keaton) to lead the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund,...
Second Look: An Annual Survey of Overlooked Films
With this annual column, I again nominate several “Movies That Got Away,” feature films (from 2020) less noticed or hyped upon release. This selection...
At The Movies: Films Current and Historic
Storm Lake
Here’s a paean to journalism, old style. It’s also a near obituary for shoe leather journalism as it was practiced, especially in America’s...