Brian Priestley

[AFI Fest Review] Merchants of Doubt

Climate change deniers say a lot of ridiculous things, but there’s one specific straw man argument they frequently fall back on that is so insulting in its ridi...

[AFI Fest Review] American Sniper

The thirty-one-month gap between the theatrical releases of 2011’s J. Edgar and this year’s Jersey Boys marked the longest such stretch in the forty-three-year-...

[AFI Fest Review] The Salt of the Earth

At one point early in Wim Wenders' new documentary, The Salt of the Earth, the co-director details his deeply emotional connection to photographer Sebastiao Sal...

[AFI Fest Review] Song of the Sea

Song of the Sea, the latest animated feature from The Secret of Kells director Tomm Moore, opens with a dreamlike sequence that quickly lays the foundation for ...

[AFI Fest Review] ’71

In an AFI Fest post-screening discussion of his new film ’71, director Yann Demange expressed the legitimate concern that certain audiences, specifically those ...