Thom says: “I’m more than a little tired of this genre trying hard to make basic nogoodniks into sympathetic, likable sorts, They’ve tried to make these films workable since the beginning of genre filmmaking, but this one, despite musts-see McConaughey,
Thom says: “Musts-see Isaac & Ben Kingsley drove me to watch this but the Israeli capture of the notorious Adolf Eichmann in Argentina years after the end of WWII is tedious. Kingsley hams it up pretty good.
Thom says: “Once I realized that the director is largely responsible for the mediocre television hit THIS IS US, I should have avoided it. A NYC couple’s tragic story reverberates over continents and lifetimes, no, really. I always enjoy Oscar
Michael says: “I have a dirty little secret… I’m not a fan of the muppets. I know, it’s sacrilege, but I enjoyed Sesame St. as a child, but I never really got into the Muppet Show, nor did I enjoy
Vicki says: “INDIA SWEETS AND SPICES is an Indian inter-generational coming of age film. It tries to take on too many themes and , as a result, it falls flat. It has some good moments and a fine performance by
Michael says: “POSER starts off promisingly enough, with Lennon, a introverted young woman who starts a podcast to profile the indie musicians populating the vibrant Columbus, OH music scene. She attends shows and interviews a variety of musicians, adding in
Michael says: “I watched this bizarre Australian musical after hearing about it on the Brattle’s podcast. I was intrigued because it was the second feature narrative film by the talented director Gillian Armstrong; a very bizarre follow-up to her amazing
Chris says: “The poster and the premise might lead one to expect another low-budget, mean-streets-of-Boston crime drama; thankfully, this goes a little deeper than that set-up. 25 years after a traumatic event that we only see fragments of until its full
Laura says: “German cowriter (with Marie Noelle)/director Peter Sehr gets points for trying something different, but his radical choices, incoherent storytelling and truly head-scratching ending add up to an intriguing failure. Star Adrien Brody has always been interesting to watch,
Michael says: “This one was actually released in 2020, but I missed it for eligibility. I saw it reviewed on a friends Facebook page, and it sounded really intriguing, it had a pretty good rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and a
