Courtney Howard // Film Critic VERITY Rated R, 1 hour and 57 minutes Directed by: Michael Showalter Starring: Dakota Johnson, Anne Hathaway, Josh Hartnett, Irina Dvorovenko, Brady Wagner BookTok’s ...
Despite what you might think, director Jon M. Chu’s WICKED isn’t solely a fluffy, colorful musical prequel to 1939’s THE WIZARD OF OZ. The auteur handles those homages with gorgeously evocative ...
Courtney Howard // Film Critic DIGGER Rated R, 2 hours and 8 minutes Directed by: Alejandro G. Iñárritu Starring: Tom Cruise, John Goodman, Riz Ahmed, Sandra Hüller, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jesse ...
An eight-episode series that spooled over the course of two months – instead of the Netflix model of dropping all episodes on a single day – I was instantly intrigued by the opening murder to put the ...
IT ENDS WITH US is a mess of a movie with its heart in the right place, at least occasionally. Director/ co-star Justin Baldoni’s adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s novel is at war with itself, attempting ...
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella, Christian Convery, Jordan Alexa Davis, P.J. Byrne, Hudson Meek, Anne Gee Byrd, Emily Kuroda Filmmakers, it’s time for a heart-to-heart. A few of ...
On paper, the basis for Zane Parsons’ YouTube sensation – now turned burgeoning big screen phenomenon – BACKROOMS doesn’t seem particularly terrifying. The found footage chronicles of someone with an ...
Starring: Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, Colman Domingo, Wyatt Russell, Elizabeth Marvel, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Hettienne Park, Courtney Grace Spielberg and aliens. These two have ...
With THE INVITE, director/ star Olivia Wilde channels her inner Mike Nichols (WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?) and nebbish Woody Allen (HUSBANDS AND WIVES), capturing neurotic couples’ reckonings and ...
Starring: Michael B. Jordan, Miles Caton, Jack O’Connell, Li Jun Li, Yao, Delroy Lindo, Wunmi Mosaku, Hailee Steinfeld, Jayme Lawson, Peter Dreimanis, Lola Kirke, Omar Benson Miller Ryan Coogler has ...
Now and again, I can draw parallels between movies that shouldn’t have a connection. It happened last year when I covered the Criterion releases of Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days and Jean-Pierre Melville’s ...
Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson pulls at least two magic tricks during ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. The first is that the auteur blends wildly extreme tones – absurdist satire, poignant drama and ...