Asher Luberto
When I got home from my 7 o'clock screening, the power in my neighborhood went out. Under normal circumstances this would have been perfectly normal--the product of construction or some over-eager birds. But the screening was for ...
Brent Goldman
**Warning: The following review contains spoilers for Avengers: Endgame.** Welcome back to the MCU. Just as a reminder we’re living in a post Captain America and Tony Stark world. And while much of the world is ...
Asher Luberto
"If you're going to San Francisco/be sure to wear flowers in your hair" the song goes. The reality is, if you're going to San Francisco make sure you can pay the rent. But not everybody can pay ...
Brent Goldman
When Toy Story 4 was first announced, a vocal group on Twitter seemed to all say the same thing…”why?” The third installment wrapped things up so nicely and seemed like a perfect note, was Toy ...
Asher Luberto
There's a lot of late nights in "Late Night," a comedy about talk show hosts. Late nights be damned, this film is undeniably woke. A humorously hyper-verbal and deeply genuine look at women finding their voice in a man's ...
Asher Luberto
A great film helps us escape reality. But some films go further. Some films are lucky enough to see their artificial worlds come to fruition. That jump from artifice to prophetic art is rarer than you ...
Andrew Osborne
As of this writing, "Booksmart," Olivia Wilde's directorial debut (starring Jonah Hill's sister, the luminous Beanie Feldstein) is sporting an impressive 100% "fresh" score on Rotten Tomatoes, due in part to its empowering girl power message (both onscreen and ...
Asher Luberto
It's a great week to be a dog lover at the movies. There's puppy reincarnation in "A Dog's Purpose" and puppy salvation in "John Wick: Chapter 3--Parabellum." The third installment in a series that has given new ...
Toba Singer
Again with the Shakespeare, Kenneth Branagh! This time it’s not a movie version of a work by the bard, but rather, a close encounter with him along fault lines predicting a fractious interlude. You may wince at ...
Jess Friedman
“Little Woods” is writer and director Nia DaCosta’s debut film about two sisters in rural South Dakota struggling to make ends meet. Tessa Thompson (“Sorry to Bother You”, “Creed”) plays Ollie, short for Oleander. Ollie is a determined, serious, ...
