Early on in “Us,” Jordan Peele’s second directorial effort, a young girl on the Santa Cruz boardwalk passes a beach bum carrying…
Like many sports movies before it, “High Flying Bird” is about changing the game. It is a classic example of an underdog…
Recently available on Netflix, “Dear Ex” (2018) tells a story of a Taiwanese teenage boy who drifts apart from his mother after…
If you watched the snoozefest that was this year’s Oscars, you might believe that 2018 was a terrible year for movies. The…
“Shoplifters” (万引き家族) is the 2018 Palme d’Or-winning masterwork of celebrated Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda. The film tells the story of a family…
“Burning” is a South Korean film by Lee Chang-dong that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this May. It is currently in…
A 1960s Montana family burns to the ground in Paul Dano’s masterful directorial debut. Dano is best known as an actor (“There…
7/10 stars Released on October 19, Jonah Hill’s directorial debut, “Mid90s,” presents a dark, meandering story about a young boy in Los…
The 27th Philadelphia Film Festival has come to an end. The 10-day journey has given me great pleasure, and watching seven excellent…
“Halloween,” the direct sequel to the 1978 original, offers more of the same punky, slashy entertainment under new creative hands who have…