The Intern
From the opening sequence, you know you’re watching a Nancy Meyers movie. The director of many chick flick gems including The Holiday, Something’s Gotta Give, It’s Complicated, and Baby Boom…
The Keeping Room
I really wanted to like this movie. The script was on the Black List, you know the one for the best un-produced screenplays. It's very small and very indie. And…
The New Girlfriend
Written and directed by one of my favorite French directors, François Ozon (Potiche, In the House), The New Girlfriend is loosely adapted from a story by the wonderful mystery writer…
Everest
The biggest star of Everest is the mountain itself. So if you plan to see the movie, you’ve got to spring for the IMAX 3D. Bring popcorn – and oxygen!…
Black Mass
There’s really only one reason to see Black Mass - and that is the performance of Johnny Depp as south Boston’s notorious Irish mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger. Depp has…
Wolf Totem
Wolf Totem is based on one of my favorite books of the last decade, so it had a lot to live up to. Sadly, it didn't. I saw it on…
Mistress America
Writer/director Noah Baumbach and writer/actress Greta Gerwig have great chemistry (apparently both on and off screen.) Mistress America is their second collaboration, the first being the wonderful 2013 comedy Frances…
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution tells the heartbreaking history of the rise and fall of The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. I saw it earlier this year at…
A Walk in the Woods
Here’s what I liked about the adventure-comedy-drama A Walk in the Woods: Robert Redford and Nick Nolte; some really funny and smart one-liners; the notion that you’re never too old…