Wonder Woman Brings the '80s Back on HBO Max
DIRECTOR: PATTY JENKINS/2020
Wonder Woman 1984 is the kind of movie you’re taken with start-to-finish bu...
Tom Hanks Brings News Both Good and ill to Western Towns Post-U.S. Civil War.
DIRECTED BY PAUL GREENGRASS/2020
A weary nomad and the child he’s taske...
The End. Or Is It???
I'm done. I've watched 50 holiday rom-coms since the beginning of November: a few good, a lot bad, almost all cheesy. I have seen mo...
Lift the Veil: David Fincher’s New Film Exposes Manipulation of Popular Views
DIRECTED BY DAVID FINCHER/2020
A significant turning point in The Wizar...
Critically Acclaimed Brazilian Political Exploration is More Than a Genre Exercise.
DIRECTED BY KLEBER MENDONÇA FILHO AND JULIANO DORNELLES/2020 (U.S. Theat...
The Banality of Christmas
The sameness really gets to you after a while. A few basic plots are rehashed over and over. The lead actors and actresses look ...
In Praise of Older Leading Ladies
You know one thing I appreciate about Hallmark rom-coms? It's not unusual for the female leads to be in the 30s, 40, or e...
New and Improved! Now includes Hanukkah!
This subtitle is a bit bogus since last year's rom-com-athon included one movie about an interfaith couple and some...
The Worst Kind of Recount
Well, oopsie daisy! I've just realized that I jumped straight from #26 to #28 in counting my movies, so that's a bummer. At this ...
Engaging Chinese Myth, Science, and Adolescent Struggles, Glen Keane’s Netflix Feature Remains Trapped in Orbit.
DIRECTED BY GLEN KEANE/2020
On its s...
