Director and co-writer Sebastián Leilo’s story of a black sheep’s return to the pen (though not the fold) hits three notes of a religious chord: faith rejected, faith endured, and faith tested. The first sounds clean and clear, embodied with …
by Matthew LickonaThe same line, that would be, as the previous year's Ray, a musical biopic on a recently fallen giant of popular song, C&W; instead of R&B;, Johnny Cash instead of Ray Charles, two years dead instead of mere months, but …
by Duncan ShepherdThe storyline of the Frank Herbert sci-fi novel is hopelessly buried beneath an avalanche of unfamiliar vocabulary and proper names -- beneath Arrakis and Atreides and Caladan and Giedi Prime and Kaitain and heaven knows what all. One doesn't have …
by Duncan ShepherdA sexed-up (if not exactly sexy), sassy, and ultimately slight crime …
A story of overcoming adversity and the journey behind Bob Marley's r…
Lawrence of Arrakis meets Dr. Sandworm, or, How I Learned to Stop Wor…
Director Cord Jefferson’s adaptation of writer Percival Everett’s nov…
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive…
Carla Nowak, a dedicated sports and math teacher, starts her first jo…
A natural gas salesman (Matt Damon, not director Gus Van Sant) uses t…
Set in France in 1889, the film follows the life of Dodin Bouffant (B…
A late 19th century Polish village is a hotbed of gossip and ongoing …
Sharon Stevens (Hilary Swank), a fierce but struggling hairdresser in…
Hirayama is content with his simple life cleaning toilets in Tokyo. O…
An elderly lama (Kelsang Choejey), recognizing that extraordinary cha…
What would or could have been cause circa 1970 for something wayward, moody, contemplative, possibly even introspective, is here just an excuse to bring Hollywood flash and frippery out onto the road and into the heartland. Director Ridley Scott (Alien, …
by Duncan ShepherdThe same line, that would be, as the previous year's Ray, a musical biopic on a recently fallen giant of popular song, C&W; instead of R&B;, Johnny Cash instead of Ray Charles, two years dead instead of mere months, but …
by Duncan ShepherdIf David Lynch couldn’t make heads or tails of Frank Herbert’s famously unfilmable novel, what was it about Denis Villeneuve that pegged him as the visionary needed to tame the 412-page beast? Sure, he did a splendid job of piloting …
by Scott Marks