“End of Sentence” marks the return of Logan Lerman, who can later be seen in the Sundance breakout “Shirley”. He flexes his dramatic muscle more in this performance, literally, boasting a more muscular physique, tattoos and a bad boy persona unseen in his previous work. Michael Armbruster’s script is a amiable with a story compelling […]
A shell of a movie, that’s what documentarian turned feature film director Kitty Green has delivered with The Assistant. What should have been a short film, is prolonged into an excruciating 85 minutes that Emmy Winner Julia Garner (Ozark) can’t steer on her own. Green’s story about a woman working in a film production/distribution company
Jean-Marc Vallée’s “Wild” is the best comparison for what to expect with Belgium director Felix Van Groeningen’s “Beautiful Boy.” Both films focus on the struggle with addiction and despair. “Beautiful Boy” based on two novels, one from the point of view of the father, the other from the son. It is a gripping and thoroughly
Name me the last skater film you saw… Now name the last skater film you saw about female skateboarders. There are none, making “Skate Kitchen” something of a rarity. Crystal Moselle makes her feature film directorial debut here on a script she also wrote, based on her short film of the same topic with the same
You might wish you never really watched Lynne Ramsey’s latest film You Were Never Really Here. Her first film since Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), she has a thing for long titles. My first reaction to this film, which debuted unfinished at Cannes in 2017 to standing ovations, was one of annoyance. For the
The Glass Castle doesn’t work well on screen under director Destin Daniel Cretton’s vision for a handful of reasons. The first and foremost is how the narrative manipulates the audience’s emotions and feelings towards the monstrous father figure. While Harrelson (Wilson) and Larson (Kong Skull Island) are astutely cast, the best parts of the film
Tom McCarthy seems like a pretty talented guy, high praise for his supporting acting roles, received an Oscar nomination for animated scripts like “Up”, and consulted on the record breaking first season of “Game of Thrones”.