Film Review: Spotlight

Spotlight is a very good journalistic drama, starring an excellent ensemble, that won’t let you go from start to finish.

Film Review: Carol

Carol is a beautiful little love story that feels a bit too one-sided. Still, it has impeccable direction and exquisite acting at every turn; first and foremost from Rooney Mara.

Film Review: Bridge of Spies

Bridge of Spies is what you expect from Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, an entertaining and grounded take on the material, that excels at almost all times.

Film Review: Room

Room is always on the verge of being something great, but a wrong headed decision at the 2/3 mark almost sank the movie entirely.

Film Review: Truth

Truth is a corny retelling of the Rather/Bush National Guard fallout that can’t decide if it just wants to present us facts or actually comment on the downfall of journalism.

Film Review: Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs is frontlined by a blazing script from Aaron Sorkin and another great turn from Michael Fassbender, while Danny Boyle keeps the three settings of the film feeling fresh.

Film Review: Crimson Peak

Guillermo del Toro bounces back from the let down of Pacific Rim (a movie I like) with Crimson Peak, a “gothic romance with ghosts” that delivers exactly on that promise.

Film Review: The Walk

The Walk finds Robert Zemeckis fighting against the superior documentary on the same subject, Man on Wire, but his realization of the titular walk is worth the price of admission.

Film Review: Beasts of No Nation

Beasts of No Nation is an often unflinching look at an African country’s war-torn, State vs. Rebels conflict, that director Cary Joji Fukunaga can’t quite bring together into something great.

Film Review: The Keeping Room

The Keeping Room has a pretty solid premise at its core, but for almost every moment that works I was thrown off by something else.

Middle of the Row

Author: Zac