On the shortlist of actors who I'll watch in pretty much anything, Bill Nighy is near the top. Effortlessly charming and dryly funny, he consistently brings a warmth and wit to whomever he's portraying on screen. In Sometimes Always Never, Carl Hunter's debut feature film about a father grieving ...
Review: Shirley
Elisabeth Moss is the rare actress who has made remarkable work in both television ("Mad Men," "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Top of the Lake") and film (Her Smell, Us, The Invisible Man), and her latest role as mid-century author Shirley Jackson (known for her dark social commentary and subject ...
Review: On the Record
It's been a daunting week. While the country limps through a grim Coronavirus milestone, there's news of another incident of white police killing a black man and a racist confrontation in Central Park. In the midst of it all, and perhaps as a bit of a distraction from the heartbreaking headlines, ...
Review: Lucky Grandma
Back in the "before" times (before pandemics, before lockdowns, before movies were limited to what we can stream from home), a film like Lucky Grandma relied on the buzz generated around top-notch film festivals to build its audiences. After premiering at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival (the ...
Review: The Painter and The Thief
As film premises go, the one for The Painter and the Thief is a doozy: an artist seeks out and befriends the man who stole her paintings. If it weren't a documentary—at times a startlingly blunt, raw one—it wouldn't be believable. But filmmaker Benjamin Ree (Magnus) all but disappears behind ...
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