One of the best music documentaries of recent memory, Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry is an honest, forthcoming look at the trajectory the 17-year-old pop star found herself on as she became the most popular performer in the world in 2019.
Read MoreThe 2021 reboot of Tom & Jerry is a poorly executed movie which makes one wonder what the point of bringing back two animated characters was when they simply exist to prop up an uninteresting story of human beings treating each other poorly.
Read MoreObnoxious, absurd, and absolutely hilarious, Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo deliver two memorable comedic creations in Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar.
Read MoreThe Map of Tiny Perfect Things is a fun, endearing, better-than-average young adult romantic comedy about two teenagers trying to figure out why they are caught up together in a time loop.
Read MoreWhen a young woman suffers sexual assault, her boyfriend tries to help by arranging medical tests and appointments for her in Shatara Michelle Ford’s stunning, can’t miss debut film.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreOne 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.
Read MoreSerbia’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.
Read MoreColin Firth and Stanley Tucci are terrific in this moving drama about a couple coming to terms with a partner’s increasing cognitive decline.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreWonder 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.
Read MorePromising 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.
Read MoreIt 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.
Read MoreRegina 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.
Read MoreTom 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.
Read MoreGeorge 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.
Read MoreAdapted 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.
Read MoreAmong the finest animated films of 2020, Wolfwalkers is a creative, uniquely designed story of empowerment, inner strength and fantastical adventures.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreA 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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