Oppenheimer
In July of 1945, the first test of the Atomic Bomb was conducted under a cloud of secrecy in New Mexico; a month later, the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on…
L’immensità
Set in 1970s Rome, L'immensità is a semi-autobiographical look at one summer in director Emanuele Crialese's youth. In the film, the eldest child in the family is a teenage Adri…
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
I often gripe about running times, especially when a movie is (needlessly) longer than two hours. There's no griping with Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One. At 160 minutes,…
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
First, there was Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981; then Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in 1984; Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade…
No Hard Feelings
No Hard Feelings is rated R. So yes- there is a double entrendre in play here and way more exposure than one might expect from Academy Award winning actress Jennifer…
The Future
Set in the not too distant future in Israel, which doesn't feel all that different from right now, The Future is the story of two women, Dr. Nurit Bloch (Reymonde…
On the Edge (Entre La Vie et La Mort)
A body falls onto the tracks in front of a Brussels subway driver as he pulls into the station. It's every subway driver's nightmare, but this time it is his…
Book Club: The Next Chapter
If you put the first Book Club movie in a PG-13 blender with the likes of Girls Trip, Bridesmaids, and 80 for Brady, you'd have yourself a nice, tall glass…
To Catch a Killer
Shailene Woodley (Divergent, The Fault in Our Stars) stars in this Silence of the Lambs wannabe procedural thriller as Eleanor, a young beat cop who finds herself in the center…
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Double Feature: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret; Judy Blume Forever
Growing up, it was a rite of passage to get "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" out of the library and plow through it, along with a stack of…
The Worst Ones (Les pires)
Set in Picasso, a gritty, working class town in the north of France, The Worst Ones is a film-within-a-film. Belgian director Gabriel (Johan Heldenbergh) comes to the town to shoot…
John Wick: Chapter 4
"No one escapes the Table." Or so they say. But John Wick -- bless his warm, semi-retired assassin heart-- keeps trying. And those around him keep dying. Yes, the seemingly…
Juniper
It's probably just the films I am choosing to watch these days, but it is a great time for older actresses. Juniper stars Charlotte Rampling and she hasn't lost an…
Magic Mike’s Last Dance
“So what’d you think?,” someone asked with an impish grin as I emerged from the theater. “It’s…steamy,” was about all I could muster in the (over-heated) moment. Now that I’ve…
80 FOR BRADY
There’s a cloud hanging over this mostly entertaining film, and it’s Tom Brady... the G.O.A.T., the seven-time Super Bowl Champion quarterback, the pride of the New England Patriots and then…