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A Movie Review of Molly’s Game by Mark Tapio Kines

Every film lover should try to go to Sundance at least once, for only then can you understand the mad fervor that surrounds every buzzworthy premiere. Hundreds...

Rachel Weisz plays Ronit, a New York-based photographer who has just learned that her estranged father, a leading rabbi in a conservative Jewish community in...

The third collaboration between Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody appears to be an intensely personal one for the latter: Tully‘s protagonist Marlo...

After four live-action features of varying emotional and narrative quality, I’d argue that what we now call “Wes Anderson Style” was perfected...

Humor’s knife cuts deepest, and this coal-black comedy about Joseph Stalin’s 1953 demise paints an absurd – and absurdly accurate – picture of...

Pasadena’s first proper film festival, now in its fifth year, has commandeered a theater at Laemmle’s Playhouse 7 from March 7th through March 15th, 2018....

After a pair of exceptionally baffling films – The Master and Inherent Vice – Paul Thomas Anderson returns with an original story that is much more...

MOVIE REVIEW Critics everywhere have been falling over themselves with praise for this film. I confess that I am not sharing the love. Call Me by Your Name...

MOVIE REVIEW The Shape of Water begins with a montage, set to accordion-heavy French music straight out of Amélie, of a mute cleaning lady named Elisa (Sally...

After gently skewering Scandinavian masculinity in his intimate 2014 dramedy Force Majeure, writer/director Östlund expands his scope to explore the...