Read More

[Review] Florence Foster Jenkins

Florence Foster Jenkins is this year’s movie that your mom will love which, under its anodyne surface, is actually kind of morally abhorrent. Allegedly a tribut...

[Review] Anthropoid

Throw a dart at a map, and you can make a World War II movie set in whatever place you hit. Of course, pretty much any film about the Good War that doesn’t focu...

[Locarno Review] Scarred Hearts

Beginning in 1937 -- the opening credits take us through a series of period photos and alert us to expect something with a potentially greater scope than simply...

[Locarno Review] The Human Surge

To put it upfront, Eduardo Williams’ The Human Surge is pretty much a film that, by nature, is unlovable. Often blatantly ugly or boring, it’s not so much delib...