A blistering, powerful look at Fred Hampton’s youthful rise and fall as a Black Panther Party leader, JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH is not to be missed.
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One of 2020’s best films, Minari is a beautiful, bittersweet look at a Korean-American family’s pursuit of the perceived American Dream in 1980s Arkansas.
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Serbia’s Oscar hopeful, Dara of Jasenovac, is a bleak, relentless look at the atrocities committed at the Jasenovac Concentration Camp during World War II, as seen through the eyes of a young girl.
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Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci are terrific in this moving drama about a couple coming to terms with a partner’s increasing cognitive decline.
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The Little Things is a serial killer murder mystery which feels like so many movies of the past and offers a trio of characters we could not care less about if we tried.
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Wonder Woman 1984 is a major disappointment, a misfire that doesn’t require us to throw out the baby with the bathwater, but does appear to need a significant reboot just two movies into the franchise.
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Promising Young Woman is a taut, subversive film, unapologetic in analyzing revenge, trauma, and mental and emotional pain, brilliantly conceived by writer/director Emerald Fennell, with a career-best performance by Carey Mulligan.
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It might take more than one viewing to leave an impact, but Pixar’s latest film, Soul, is a wonderful movie about finding your best self and how to live a life of pursuits that make you whole.
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Regina King’s debut feature, One Night in Miami…, brings a fictionalized conversation to life involving four Black icons - Malcolm X, Muhammed Ali, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke - as they come together to reflect on their lives after Ali wins a championship prize fight in February 1964.
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Tom Hanks guides us through News of the World, a throwback Western film with Hanks portraying a traveling storyteller in Texas, c. 1870, tasked with returning a young girl to the only family she has left.
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George Clooney’s return as a leading man and director, The Midnight Sky, is a dystopian science-fiction film which finds good scenes and moments drowned out by a bleak, cold, and distancing story of connection, loneliness, and loss.
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Adapted from August Wilson’s Tony-Award nominated play, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom features a story of suppressed pain, distrust, and immense talent, powered by the incredible final performance from Chadwick Boseman and a powerful Viola Davis.
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Among the finest animated films of 2020, Wolfwalkers is a creative, uniquely designed story of empowerment, inner strength and fantastical adventures.
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The Prom is full of the right messages, but Ryan Murphy’s star-studded affair struggles to focus on what’s important and minimizes the very causes it tries to fight for.
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A tender, beautiful, extraordinary look at so many we take for granted or leave behind, Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland is a towering, yet soft-spoken revelation of a woman navigating a new life after the 2008 economic recession.
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David Fincher’s Mank is technically impressive, well-acted, but a rather emotionless and clinical look at the process Herman Mankiewicz endured to write Citizen Kane, and fulfill his obligation to bring Orson Welles’ iconic film from an idea into a biting, game-changing reality.
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Documenting the onset of COVID-19 and the Coronavirus outbreak during the 76-day lockdown in Wuhan, China, 76 Days is a powerful historical record of a nation in crisis, on the cusp of a world soon to be changed forever.
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The intriguing Black Bear finds Aubrey Plaza delivering one of the best performances of the year within an experimental movie that asks more questions than it answers.
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There are worse movies in the world than Disney+ release Godmothered, but this holiday-themed family comedy is slight and rather underwhelming.
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A somewhat bizarre film, Ron Howard’s Hillbilly Elegy celebrates a main character simply showing up as heroic, while the pain and anguish he encounters among his loved ones as a nagging inconvenience.
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