Drama

Waves Review: A Powerful and Essential Family Drama Which Grows Into One Of The Best Movies Of The Year

November 19 2019, by Michael Frank

Sometimes you can’t stop it. You feel helpless, at the mercy of the string of pictures being played before you. The film builds upon itself,...

The Crown Recap: Pushed To The Limit

November 17 2019, by Daniel Hart

This recap of Netflix series The Crown Season 3, Episode 10, “Cri de Coeur” contains significant spoilers. You can read the recap of the previous...

The Crown Recap: Choosing Who You Love

November 17 2019, by Daniel Hart

This recap of Netflix series The Crown Season 3, Episode 9, “Imbroglio” contains significant spoilers. You can read the recap of the previous episode by...

The Crown Recap: The Former King

November 17 2019, by Daniel Hart

This recap of Netflix series The Crown Season 3, Episode 8, “Dangling Man” contains significant spoilers. You can read the recap of the previous episode...

The Crown Recap: Midlife Crisis

November 17 2019, by Daniel Hart

This recap of Netflix series The Crown Season 3, Episode 7, “Moon Dust” contains significant spoilers. You can read the recap of the previous episode...

The Crown Recap: Wanting To Be Heard

November 17 2019, by Daniel Hart

This recap of Netflix series The Crown Season 3, Episode 6, “Tywysog Cymru” contains significant spoilers. You can read the recap of the previous episode...

The Crown Recap: What It Could Have Been

November 17 2019, by Daniel Hart

This recap of Netflix series The Crown Season 3, Episode 5, “Coup” contains significant spoilers. You can read the recap of the previous episode by...

The Crown Recap: Mother Issues

November 17 2019, by Daniel Hart

This recap of Netflix series The Crown Season 3, Episode 4, “Bubbikins” contains significant spoilers. You can read the recap of the previous episode by...

The Crown Recap: Responding To A Crisis

November 17 2019, by Daniel Hart

This recap of Netflix series The Crown Season 3, Episode 3, “Aberfan” contains significant spoilers. You can read the recap of the previous episode by...

The Crown Recap: Vice Queen

November 17 2019, by Daniel Hart

This recap of Netflix series The Crown Season 3, Episode 2, “Margaretology” contains significant spoilers. You can read the recap of the previous episode by...

The Crown Recap: There’s A Mole

November 17 2019, by Daniel Hart

This recap of Netflix series The Crown Season 3, Episode 1, “Olding” contains significant spoilers. You can read the season 3 review by clicking these...

Pain & Glory Review: A Career-Defining Performance From Antonio Banderas

November 17 2019, by M.N. Miller

Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film is probably his most personal and mature work to date. Pain & Glory is essentially an autobiographical film, lifting memories of...

The Club Review: A Familiar Story Told In A Familiar Way

November 15 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

This is the kind of show you’ve seen before — especially on Netflix, which loves a good young-people-turn-to-drug-dealing drama, especially if it’s an international project. The...

The Morning Show Recap: Who’s Next?

November 15 2019, by Daniel Hart

This recap of Apple TV+s The Morning Show Season 1, Episode 5, “No One’s Gonna Harm You, Not While I’m Around” contains significant spoilers. You...

Sin Cielo Review: A Mind-Blowing Short Film

November 13 2019, by Louie Fecou

Sin Cielo won the grand jury prize at Seattle Film Festival, as well as numerous other prestigious awards for short films. Director Jianna Maarten received...

New Amsterdam Season 2 Episode 8 Recap

November 13 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

We recap New Amsterdam Season 2 Episode 8, “What the Heart Wants,” which contains significant spoilers.  Blimey, even by the show’s usual standards, things are...

Better Days Review: High Quality And Thought Provoking Chinese Drama

November 11 2019, by Alix Turner

It’s easy to go into a film screening with preconceptions, especially having seen so many films already. I knew that Better Days AKA Shao nian...

The Nightingale Review: A Gratuitous Slog

November 10 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

When Jennifer Kent burst onto the scene in 2014 with her debut feature The Babadook, I was absolutely enamored. I was in high school at...

Marriage Story (2019) Review

November 10 2019, by Tyler Howat

Directed by Noah Baumbach, we review the 2019 Netflix movie Marriage Story, which does not contain any significant spoilers. Marriage Story is a tragedy—there are...

Trial By Fire Review: A Combustible Performance By Jack O’Connell

November 9 2019, by M.N. Miller

Director Ed Zwick has always had a knack for drawing the viewer in with a killer opening scene or sequence. If you look down his...