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Monsoon **** (2019, Henry Golding, Parker Sawyers, David Tran, Molly Harris) – Movie Review

Henry Golding gives a tender portrayal of a man trying to reconnect with the place he once called home in Hong Khaou’s poignant meditation on cultural displacement. Writer-director Hong Khaou’s second feature film Monsoon (2019) […]

Oct, 04

Judy ** (2019, Renée Zellweger, Jessie Buckley, Finn Wittrock, Rufus Sewell, Michael Gambon) – Movie Review

Throwing herself into the 2019 movie star biopic Judy to the max, Renée Zellweger gives an impressively showy, over-twitchy, mannered performance as Judy Garland, who comes in London in the winter of 1968 to perform […]

Oct, 04

Matthias et Maxime [Matthias & Maxime] **** (2019, Xavier Dolan, Gabriel D’Almeida Freitas, Harris Dickinson, Anne Dorval) – Movie Review

Gabriel D’Almeida Freitas and Xavier Dolan star as Matthias & Maxime, which finds writer-director Xavier Dolan in romantic mode, edgy, unconventional romantic mode perhaps, but definitely romantic mode. The French-Canadian film, mostly in French focuses […]

Oct, 02

The Goldfinch **** (2019, Oakes Fegley, Ansel Elgort, Nicole Kidman, Boyd Gaines, Luke Wilson, Sarah Paulson, Finn Wolfhard, Jeffrey Wright) – Movie Review

Director John Crowley’s smart 2019 drama The Goldfinch stars Oakes Fegley as a 13-year-old boy, Theo Decker, whose mother is killed in a terrorist bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and […]

Sep, 28

The Miseducation of Cameron Post **** (2018, Chloë Grace Moretz, Steven Hauck, Quinn Shephard, Kerry Butler, Dalton Harrod, McCabe Slye, Dale Soules, Sasha Lane, John Gallagher Jr, Emily Skeggs, Marin Ireland, Forrest Goodluck) – Classic Movie Review 8932

Co-writer/director Desiree Akhavan’s earnest, sincere and intelligent 2018 drama The Miseducation of Cameron Post, based on novel by Emily M Danforth, is an excellent move in the right direction by Chloë Grace Moretz as a […]

Sep, 23

Parting Glances **** (1986, John Bolger, Richard Ganoung, Steve Buscemi) – Classic Movie Review 8867

Writer-director Bill Sherwood’s 1986 Queer Cinema drama Parting Glances is a powerful bittersweet look at New York gay life in the Eighties, with funny, touching and heart-breakingly tragic moments. Writer-director Sherwood works little wonders with […]

Aug, 25

Pain and Glory [Dolor y Gloria] ***** (2019, Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Cecilia Roth, Julieta Serrano, Nora Navas, César Vicente) – Movie Review

Writer/ director Pedro Almodóvar’s reflective semi-autobiographical Pain and Glory [Dolor y Gloria] (2019) is tremendous, as near perfection as any film gets. Almodóvar is on great form in serious mode in one of his best […]

Aug, 25

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