Blade Runner 2049 Gives New Life to Old Ideas
Blade Runner 2049 opens nationwide October 6, 2017 • Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas • TLM Rating 3.5/4 "Blade Runner 2049" doesn't try to up the original in any way; the words, "bigger" and "better," which are so...
‘mother!’ Knows Best
TLM Rating: 4/4 After a series of seemingly nonsensical images, "mother!" drops us into an empty cavity of a house, nonetheless inhabited by a married couple—though they behave more like married individuals. Of the two,...
‘Dunkirk’ is a War Film like No Other
As the story opens, we see a pack of fresh-faced soldiers walking carelessly through a quaint town paved with cobblestone. It looks more like a tourist trap than a war zone, but sure enough, fire rings out...
The Answer Isn’t Blowing in “Wind River”
"Wind River" is the directorial debut of Taylor Sheridan, the writer behind "Sicario" and "Hell or High Water," two films I find nearly perfect. For a first go in the captain's seat, perhaps it was wise...
The Makings of a “Lady Macbeth”
"Lady Macbeth" doesn't take place in Scotland, but an un-romanticized Victorian England, in which charming orphans and blushing debutantes are nowhere to be found. Nor does it star a ruthless, calculating Queen, but the young Katherine (Florence...
Make a Date with ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’
“Spider-Man: Homecoming” and I start off on the wrong foot. Spider-Man has never been my super powered do-gooder of choice. I find his incessant need to be the class clown—even though nobody is watching, except...
‘War’: What is it Good For?
"War for the Planet of the Apes" had me worried. With the first word in the title and the average trilogy's tendency to up the ante in all the wrong ways, I expected something brash, bloated and focused on...
Just Like A ‘Wonder Woman’
In her fantastic 2003 film, "Monster," Patty Jenkins undertook the herculean—or should I say Amazonian—task of humanizing a serial killer, and somehow pulled it off. Her task with "Wonder Woman" is just as complicated, maybe...
“It Comes at Night” Is Horror Done Right
It may be true that there is nothing to fear but fear itself, but as "It Comes at Night" proves, fear itself is nothing to sneer at. In small doses, fear might produce involuntary spasms or mild...
