Movie Reviews

What makes a family? Do we choose our families, or do they choose us? These questions, along with several others, loom large in Broker, the latest from Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda. On a stormy night, So-young (Ji-eun Lee) walks to a church to leave her baby in a box designated for abandoned babies. When the church gets an alert that a baby has been placed in the box, two men, Sang-hyeon (Song Kang-ho) and Dong-soo…

You would think that after having made some of the most iconic and successful films of all time over the last fifty years, it would be a tough task to continue to impress the audience and try something new. That would be the case for most directors, but not Steven Spielberg, who is continuously pushing himself as a director. In 2021, he dove into the musical genre with his bright and lively vision of West…

  It has been thirteen years since the last time we visited the world of Pandora, but James Cameron takes us back in Avatar: The Way of Water, the long-awaited sequel that was well worth the wait. Don’t remember what happened in the first Avatar? That’s fine. Cameron starts the film off with a juxtaposition-heavy introduction highlighting what happened in the first film and what our characters are up to. Following their victory against the…

  Every year around this time, we tend to get movies that feel geared toward the Oscars and awards season. Prestige pictures featuring award-winning directors, actors, writers, and crew members telling a story that feels dramatic or important all for the sake of winning awards. While some of these movies see success at the Oscars, many have failed, whether it be a lack of or zero nominations, a failed box office, a low critical reception,…

  Todd Field’s TÁR, the director’s first film since 2006’s Little Children, begins unlike any movie I have seen in 2022 and maybe ever. The credits roll, but they feel like the closing credits. Set to a backdrop with no music, we see the credits of everyone who worked on the film, from the stars to the craft services team. It almost felt like the film was playing backward or someone in the projection booth…

  Daniel Craig returns as the world’s greatest detective Benoit Blanc in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Rian Johnson’s sequel to his 2019 murder mystery that is even bigger and wilder than the first film. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Blanc is struggling. He is bored out of his mind and spends most of his days sitting in a bathtub reading or playing online video games waiting for his next great case….

  Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is a movie that looks at the importance of a legacy. It looks at the legacy of the characters in the film and how important they are to their nations and the people of their nations. It looks at the legacy of its actors and how significant they are or were to the franchise and to the film community. And it looks at the legacy of the film and its…

In Martin McDonagh’s latest film, The Banshees of Inisherin, Collin Ferrell plays Pádraic, a cow farmer who lives with his sister Siobhan (Kerry Condon) on Inisherin, a fictional small island off the coast of Ireland. Pádraic is a nice man. A man who goes about his days like clockwork. He works with his cows, delivers milk to the local grocer, and goes and meets his best friend Colm (Brendan Gleeson) at the local pub for…

  There is no denying David O. Russell’s success in the 2010s. Throughout that decade, Russell made four films, The Fighter in 2010, Silver Linings Playbook in 2012, American Hustle in 2013, and Joy in 2015. Each of these films grossed over $100 million at the worldwide box office and garnered tons of awards attention. All four films combined earned 26 Oscar nominations, three of them for Best Picture, five of them for Russell’s directing…

  While watching Runner, I could not believe that this was the feature-length directorial debut of director Marian Mathias. There is such control and visual understanding in every aspect of Runner that you usually don’t see from someone with only one feature film under their belt. While the story didn’t fully work for me, I was in complete awe of everything I was seeing on screen. Runner followers Haas (Hannah Schiller), a soft-spoken 18-year-old living…