The Automat: A Warm Memory of a Dining Concept that Defined a Century of American Culture
By Karen Gordon
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Hit The Road: An Iranian Family Road Trip Movie With A Deft Touch
ReviewJim SlotekHit The Road, Iranian film, Panah Panahi, Hasan Majuni, Pantea Panahiha, Amin Simiar, Rayan Sarlak, Abbas Kiarostami, Road trip, Drama, Family
The Northman: Robert Eggers and his Marquee Cast Go for Full-On Viking Glory
By Karen Gordon
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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent: The Nicolas Cage Experience Goes Meta
ReviewJim SlotekNicolas Cage, Sean Penn, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Meta movies, Actors playing themselves, Jean-Claude Van Damme, JCVD, Pedro Pascal, Tiffany Haddish, Ike Barinholtz, Tom Gormican
Paris, 13th District: The Complexity of 'Uncomplicated' Sex, Buoyed by Formidable Scripting
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekParis, 13th District., Movies about casual sex, Jacques Audiard, Lucie Zhang, Makita Samba, Noémie Merlant, Movies based on graphic novels, Adrian Tomine, Céline Sciamma, Léa Mysius
Islands: A Filipino-Canadian Film About Taking Care
Marlene: The Muddled Melodrama of The Woman Behind Steven Truscott
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore - Fewer Beasts, More Nazi Metaphor, Less Charm
All My Puny Sorrows: 'To Be or Not to Be' Remains the Question in Ambitious Adaptation of Toews Novel
Spiritwalker: South Korean Body-Swapping Martial Arts Fantasy is Ambitiously Ambiguous
By Karen Gordon
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Mothering Sunday: A Writer’s Life Filtered through the Female Gaze
By Jennie Punter
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ReviewJim SlotekMothering Sunday, Eva Husson, Graham Swift, British period film, 1920s, writer’s life, female gaze, sensuality, Odessa Young, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Olivia Colman
Everything Went Fine: A French Family Grapples With Assisted Suicide in a Film That Avoids Melodrama
By Karen Gordon
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Ambulance: Wheels On the Ground, Michael Bay Does What He Does A Bit Better
Cow: The New Milk Cow Blues
Sundown: Uncertainty Exalts Director Michel Franco’s Singular Mexican-Set Drama
As They Made Us: Twee Family Drama Boasts Strong Cast, So-So Story
ReviewJim SlotekAs They Made Us, Mayim Bialik, Dianna Agron, Candice Bergen, Dustin Hoffman, Simon Helberg, Justin Chu Cary, Family drama, Drama, End of life issues, Neko Case
Minamata: Johnny Depp Goes Deep in Film About the Japanese Town That Gave Its Name to a Disease
Slow Horses: Gary Oldman is Pungently Good in Darkly Funny Spy Series
The Last Tourist: Grim Doc Exposes the Massive Downsides of Easy Global Travel
ReviewJim SlotekDocumentary, Environmental messages, Environmental horror, The Last Tourist, Tyson Sadler, Jane Goodall, Bruce Poon Tip, G Adventures, Travel, Tourism, Travel & Tourism, Animals, Cruelty to animals
Morbius: Not Quite a Horror movie, Just Another Super-Hero Movie
