‘The Choral’ Review: Ralph Fiennes Gives an Amazing Performance in an Uneven WWI Story

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‘The Choral’ Review: Ralph Fiennes Gives an Amazing Performance in an Uneven WWI Story

The Choral takes place in 1916 in a quaint little town in Yorkshire, England. World War I is raging, and with the dwindling number of men in the small town of Ramsden, the local choral society must recruit from the…

Dwayne Johnson Will Bring You To Tears In Benny Safdie’s Solo Directorial Debut [Venice]

One would not imagine needing a tissue at the final holding card of a Benny Safdie martial arts movie starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in a heavy layer of prosthetics and shaggy toupée. And yet, “The Smashing Machine” beautifully concludes…

Splitsville Review | Flickreel

Do open relationships ever work? The answer is “yes” and “no” in Michael Angelo Covino’s comedy, Splitsville. At first, the film makes open marriage look easy. We quickly find that marriage is never easy, especially when you bring a third,…

‘It Was Just an Accident’ Review: One of Cinema’s Most Daring Directors Might’ve Just Made His Masterpiece

Few filmmakers have given as much to make the films they want as Jafar Panahi. The writer and director has gone to jail twice for his films, he’s tried smuggling his movies out of his home in Iran, he’s gone…

America Ferrera & Matthew McConaughey Go On A Harrowing Journey In Occasionally Nail-Biting True Story Drama

When it comes to true story-inspired movies, there’s a responsibility tied to them from the start. Some of these movies become even more harrowing because they’re still relevant today — it’s difficult to watch Paul Greengrass’ The Lost Bus, which…

Simmers with Tension but Lacks Lasting Impact

Ron Howard’s Eden arrives with the weight of both history and myth on its shoulders. Based on the true story of eccentric European settlers who ventured to the Galápagos Islands after World War I in search of reinvention, the film…

‘The Smashing Machine’ Review: A Colossal Performance by Dwayne Johnson Rises Above Tame Storytelling

Biopics are a surefire way into the hearts of audiences—specifically, those of awards voters; this has been the case for eons, it seems, and the pattern still holds strong. From flicks like Oppenheimer, Gandhi, Lawrence of Arabia, and Schindler's List,…

Austin Butler Leads Darren Aronofsky’s Very-‘90s-Aronofsky-Style Thriller

New York filmmaker Darren Aronofsky may occasionally make epic and fantastical films, considering the quest for everlasting life (“The Fountain”), or the religious tensions of grave sins and compassionate forgiveness (“Noah”). Still, his heart is never far away from Coney…

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale Review

Ten years ago, the finale of Downton Abbey aired. Of course, that wasn’t truly the finale. The series continued as a theatrical feature, followed by another. Now we have a third film entitled Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. Yet, this…

A Less Scary and Disappointing Finale Anchored by 2 Amazing Performances

The Conjuring franchise, as we know it, the James Wan-created horror juggernaut that launched a thousand nightmares, is coming to an end... or at least, that's the promise of the title of this iteration, the Michael Chaves-directed The Conjuring: Last…

Tim Burton’s Game-Changing Comic Book Movie Puts Most Modern Superhero Blockbusters To Shame

When Tim Burton was approached to direct a Batman movie, the most ubiquitous image of the Caped Crusader in pop culture was Adam West’s gloriously campy TV show from the 1960s. But by then, comics like The Dark Knight Returns…

George Clooney Anchors Noah Baumbach’s Moving Ode To The Magic of Movie Stars [Venice]

There’s no other way of dealing with the mythology of George Clooney but to fully lean into it. With “Jay Kelly,” Noah Baumbach understands this maxim, guiding Clooney through the shaky waters that separate reality from fiction to shape the…

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