La La Land is the most exhilarating film of the year. That becomes obvious before the title credit even appears.
Opening on the scene of a backed-up Los Angeles freeway, the camera eventually settles on a woman who...
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06 December 2016
As a critic, I’ve always been amused when dissenting readers ask the clichéd question, “Did we even see the same movie?” So it’s ironic to realize I’m having the same response to reviews of Manchester by the Sea.
It’s not just...
11 November 2016
If I told you Moonlight is about an African-American boy growing up in a world of drugs and poverty, you’d probably begin to form an image of the film in your mind. And that image probably would be wrong.
Director/...
24 October 2016
What happens when you want to turn a popular work of literature into cinema but it’s not long enough to serve your purposes?
In the case of Tolkien’s The Hobbit, director Peter Jackson simply padded the story out so much...
30 September 2016
Going to Shadowbox Live can be a humbling experience. The troupe’s so-called “metaperformers” are so busy, ambitious and talented that you can’t help feeling like a lesser species in their presence.
For a prime example of what...
30 August 2016
The average rom-com loves couples who “meet cute.”
The new flickSouthside With You is not exactly a rom-com, and it’s definitely not average. Its subject, after all, is the first date of Barack Obama and future first...
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