All posts tagged "family"
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THE SON – Review
With only 11 days left in the month, January cinema continues its two traditions. And no, it’s not...
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SUNDOWN – Review
Things are not always as they appear. In Mexican writer/director Michel Franco’s SUNDOWN, Tim Roth and Charlotte Gainsbourg...
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THE TENDER BAR – Review
Every family has some quirkiness but this one more than most, with Ben Affleck as a bartender uncle...
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HAND OF GOD – Review
Memory can be a powerful thing. The vivid autobiographical tale from Oscar-winning writer/director Paolo Sorrentino, THE HAND OF...
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BELFAST – Review
Kenneth Branagh gives us one of his best films, and his most personal, with BELFAST, a partly autobiographical...
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BLUE BAYOU – Review
Is it fair that a small child, legally adopted from another nation, is responsible for paperwork errors about...
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HERE WE ARE – Review
The soundtrack to Charlie Chaplin’s THE KID opens the father-son tale HERE WE ARE, award-winning Israeli director Nir...
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MINARI – Review
Over the last couple of national election cycles, a topic of much discussion and often heated debate has...
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WAVES – Review
One might call WAVES a family drama but that fails to capture the emotional tsunami that this outstanding...
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AFTER THE WEDDING – Review
AFTER THE WEDDING cleverly switches the genders on the Oscar-nominated Danish film of the same name, transforming it...
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SHOPLIFTERS – Review
Once again a lauded international filmmaker is taking an unfiltered look at family life. You might think that...
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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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THE CAKEMAKER – Review
Israeli writer/director Ophir Raul Graizer crafts a brilliant, moving drama that touches on identity, secrets, loneliness, sexuality and...
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THE DINNER – Review
Richard Gere stars as Stan Lohman, a congressman running for governor, who invites his brother Paul (Steve Coogan)...
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UNCLE NICK – The Review
I’m not sure what your holiday traditions are, but in my family, it’s not Christmas until you’ve watched...
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WE ARE STILL HERE – The Review
Some of the best and surprising films, not just in horror but all genres, are the ones that...
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BLACK SOULS – The Review
Like many genre films, the category of mafia films is often branded with certain expectations. Granted, not all...
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PADDINGTON – The Review
Just what we need, another cute kids’ movie about a lovable, talking animal. Children can’t seem to get...
