Amy Adams Goes Absolutely Feral In Comedy About Motherhood & Identity
Nightbitch, based on the novel of the same name by Rachel Yoder, has had a ton of hype leading up to its premiere. How will the film adapt the cerebral…
Mike Flanagan Successfully Mixes Genres In Exciting Stephen King Adaptation
The Life of Chuck is a departure for Mike Flanagan, who’s brought us memorable horror projects like The Haunting of Hill House over the years. We’ve become accustomed to certain…
Jennifer Lopez & Jharrel Jerome Are Fierce In Powerhouse Sports Drama With Heart
It’s been a minute since a sports drama has made me teary, but Unstoppable (2024) is powerful storytelling that elicits an emotional response. Directed by William Goldenberg from a screenplay…
Restrictive Storytelling Holds Back Entertaining Sexual Repression Drama
Acclaimed French writer-director Alain Guiraudie’s latest feature, Misericordia (Miséricorde), attempts to tackle repressed sexuality in a twisted mix of humor, secrecy, and deception. The film’s centerpiece is the mysterious Jérémie…
Emotionally Draining Drama Boasts An Oscar-Worthy Marianne Jean-Baptiste
In Hard Truths , Mike Leigh’s beautifully humane drama, the writer-director takes us into the lives of an ordinary British Jamaican family with the easily bothered, miserable Pansy at the…
Gripping Drama Is Necessary Viewing For Breaking The Cycle Of Abuse
Zambian Welsh writer-director Rungano Nyoni returned to the Toronto International Film Festival with her second feature, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl. The gripping drama examines past trauma and abuse through…
Post-Apocalyptic Musical Struggles To Hit The Right Notes
Riding out the apocalypse in a bunker isn’t just for rich people, though they may be the most comfortable when the end times actually come. No one’s exactly comfortable in…
Jacob Elordi & Daisy Edgar-Jones Sizzle In Elegant Drama
“It’s all luck really,” says one character in On Swift Horses, a 1950s set queer drama starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Jacob Elordi. Though this character meets Edgar-Jones’ Muriel through gambling…
An Internet Scammer’s Petty Beefs Become A Hilarious & Violent Shoot ‘Em Up
Nearly everyone’s been scammed on the internet – it’s a rite of passage at this point, to direct ire at some faceless person through a screen. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud asks…
Florence Pugh & Andrew Garfield’s Romance Will Happily Break Your Heart
One of the loveliest things about watching a film like We Live in Time is watching life being lived. Director John Crowley and writer Nick Payne paint a heartwarming, often…