Movie Review: “Tully” is the Mother Lode of Maternity Movies
There’s a montage in Jason Reitman’s new film, “Tully,” that brilliantly captures the tribulations of early motherhood. Marlo (Charlize Theron), a harried mother of...
Movie Review: “Beirut” a Plausible, Old-School Mideast Thriller
Jon Hamm established his career playing Don Draper, a master of persuasion with a penchant for a stiff drink. It’s hard to imagine that...
Movie Review: “Ready Player One”
“Ready Player One” is the geekiest movie ever made. This conclusion should be a compliment, coming from a critic who has identified as a...
Swede Fest Brings “Bad Movies By Good People” to Palm Beach
There are low-budget movies, and then there are, as Elizabeth Dashiell puts it, “no-budget movies.” The sort where, if you’re shooting a penniless remake...
Movie Review: “1945” is Visually Lush, Morally Sound
From its opening seconds, “1945” is the sort of film that sets art-house hearts aflutter. It’s in a foreign language (Hungarian, mostly), it’s shot...
Movie Review: The Familial Train Wreck of “Happy End”
“Happy End” opens and closes with cell-phone footage, the widescreen frame scrunched accordionlike into that ubiquitous, shaky, voyeuristic rectangle through which at least one...
Movie Review: “I, Tonya” Rebrands Controversial Skater
The problem with so many biopics is that life usually doesn’t proceed with the convenient clarity of a movie script, with its causes and...
The Top 10 Films of 2017
The annual top 10 list always requires a deft balancing act: In addition to the consensus choices that tend to appear on everybody’s list,...
Movie Review: “Wonder Wheel” is Woody Allen’s Sexist Nadir
Woody Allen’s latest movie opens on a cluttered beach on Coney Island in the 1950s, a canvas so teeming with people we almost expect...
Movie Review: “The Man Who Invented Christmas” Slights its Subject
South Florida author Les Standiford’s lively and revelatory book The Man Who Invented Christmas, about Charles Dickens’ writing and self-funded publication of A Christmas...
