All posts tagged "Drama"
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Cate Marquis | April 19, 2019
HIGH LIFE – Review
For her first English-language film, renowned French director Claire Denis sends Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche into space...
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Cate Marquis | April 5, 2019
ASH IS PUREST WHITE – Review
A searing epic of a gangster couple’s romance set against a backdrop of a changing China spanning near...
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Cate Marquis | March 22, 2019
GLORIA BELL – Review
Julianne Moore stars in GLORIA BELL, Oscar-winning Chilean writer/director Sebastian Lelio’s English-language remake of his romance/comedy/drama about a...
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Cate Marquis | March 15, 2019
YARDIE – Review
Actor Idris Elba makes his directing debut with YARDIE, a tale about a young Jamaican, haunted by his...
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Cate Marquis | March 15, 2019
WOMAN AT WAR – Review
In the Icelandic film WOMAN AT WAR, a lively, independent middle-aged woman named Halla (Hallora Geirhardsdottir) lives a...
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Cate Marquis | February 22, 2019
EVERYBODY KNOWS – Review
Penelope Cruz plays a Spanish-born woman who returns with her two children to the rural Spanish village where...
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Jim Batts | February 15, 2019
THE INVISIBLES (2017) – Review
From the rich historical archives of WWII comes another true tale of struggle and survival, when Hitler and...
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Cate Marquis | January 25, 2019
AT ETERNITY’S GATE – Review
Willem Dafoe gives an amazing performance as Vincent Van Gogh is Julian Schnabel impressionistic biopic AT ETERNITY’S GATE....
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Cate Marquis | January 25, 2019
COLD WAR – Review
The Oscar-nominated COLD WAR is a brilliant, beautiful film about a passionate romance between two mismatched people, set...
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Cate Marquis | January 18, 2019
DESTROYER – Review
This is not how we are used to seeing Nicole Kidman. Kidman plays snarling, violent, even grizzled...
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Cate Marquis | December 14, 2018
ROMA – Review
Oscar-winning writer/director Alfonso Cuaron (GRAVITY, CHILDREN OF MEN) crafts his most personal film, a realist drama set in...
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Cate Marquis | November 2, 2018
CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? – Review
In CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?, Melissa McCarthy gives a stunning dramatic performance in the strange but true...
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Cate Marquis | October 19, 2018
THE HAPPY PRINCE – Review
THE HAPPY PRINCE is not a happy story, neither the children’s tale by Oscar Wilde nor this biopic...
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Cate Marquis | October 12, 2018
ALL ABOUT NINA – Review
ALL ABOUT NINA focuses on a woman trying to break into the male-dominated world of stand-up comedy, but...
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Cate Marquis | October 12, 2018
THE HATE U GIVE – Review
THE HATE U GIVE tackles serious issues about race with heart and honesty through the experiences of...
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Cate Marquis | September 21, 2018
I THINK WE’RE ALONE NOW – Review
Peter Dinklage plays a man who has made a comfortable life alone in a post-apocalyptic world where he...
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Cate Marquis | September 21, 2018
LIZZIE – Review
Lizzie Borden and the gruesome murders of her parents remain in the public imagination, due in part to...
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Cate Marquis | September 7, 2018
THE WIFE – Review
Glenn Close gives one of the best performances of her career in THE WIFE, a drama exploring the...