After years of buzz, and the championing of numerous writers and directors clamoring for its release, Issa López’s fantastic fairy tale/suspense/horror hybrid, Tigers Are Not Afraid, is powerful, emotional, and one of the best films of 2019.
Read MoreWell-acted and well-directed, indie dramedy Before You Know It has a few great moments, you just wish it had more of them.
Read MoreDon’t Let Go, formerly titled Relive, is a time-travel, police procedural that becomes increasingly incoherent the longer and longer it goes.
Read MoreOne Child Nation lays bare the disastrous effects of China’s One-Child Policy in a searing and seething documentary from directors Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang.
Read MoreStrange, enlightening, frustrating, yet compelling, Cold Case Hammarskjöld is one of those rare documentaries that leave you asking - What Is Happening?
Read MorePredictable though it may be, I loved The Peanut Butter Falcon a whole bunch, with a breakout performance from actor Zack Gottsagen, and legitimate, award-worthy, career-best work from Shia LaBeouf.
Read MoreHorror/comedy hybrid Ready or Not is full of blood, gallows humor, and a breakout performance from Samara Weaving, portraying a new bride forced into a deadly game on her wedding night.
Read MoreOnce it focuses on the main characters and worries less about shocking the audience, Good Boys becomes a rather insightful, even sweet-tempered movie about the perils of middle school and the fears of growing apart from your childhood.
Read MoreThe rousing, crowd-pleasing BLINDED BY THE LIGHT, might be completely predictable from a narrative standpoint, but it pays great homage to Bruce Springsteen’s music, legacy, and the impact art can make on anyone, anywhere in the world.
Read MoreFrenzied, harried, and full of nearly two dozen celebrity voices, The Angry Birds Movie 2 is an animated family comedy that hits more than it misses.
Read MoreOne of the biggest surprises of 2019, Dora and the Lost City of Gold, led by a breakout performance by Isabela Moner, is yet one more movie I never knew I needed.
Read MoreThe long-awaited adaptation of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a well-made, PG-13 engineered horror film, though far more suspenseful than scary.
Read MoreThe story of an NFL hopeful wrongfully incarcerated for a crime he never committed, Brian Banks should be something deeper and more profound than a surface-level, paint-by-numbers disappointment.
Read More20-year-old, first-time filmmaker Colton Van Til arrives in Seattle to introduce Aberdeen, a story of a young female sports journalist who uncovers some troubling discoveries with a local high school sports team.
Read MoreStaying on brand, Hobbs & Shaw , a spin-off from the wildly popular Fast & Furious franchise, is a raucous, absurd, empty-headed summer action movie extravaganza that will test your patience.
Read MoreAimless, this 9th film from writer/director Quentin Tarantino is a lackluster disappointment despite outstanding performances from Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt.
Read MoreLulu Wang’s outstanding comedic drama The Farewell is one of 2019’s best films.
Read MoreLynn Shelton’s Sword of Trust is a funny, insightful comedy, with a wonderful ensemble led by Marc Maron and Jillian Bell.
Read MoreMarianne & Leonard: Words of Love is singularly focused for such a long period of time on Leonard Cohen, that Marianne Ihlen seems like something of an afterthought for director Nick Broomfield.
Read MoreDisney’s 2019 reinterpretation of The Lion King is innovative and groundbreaking and unlike anything I have ever seen before. The rest of the movie struggles to find its own identity.
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