Mel Gibson has made some epic films as a director, and is as accomplished as an actor-turned-director can be.  Braveheart and Hacksaw Ridge prove that point.  It is therefore surprising that he has undertaken this small-scale character-driven suspense film as his […]

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This review is going to be a little different from my others.  While I saw and enjoyed this quiet, contemplative western drama, I have one specific complaint about it, and, as it happens, the writer-director-star has directly addressed this particular […]

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Marvel Studios is still trying to find a way to rebuild its cinematic empire, something it has been unable to do since repairing the world at the end of Avengers: End Game, which was released six years ago.  A dozen or […]

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Four women, two of them friends since childhood, take an international adventure to help one of them reconnect with her birth mother.  Sounds like an inspiring story, right, perhaps a television movie of the week?  Wrong.  Not when these friends […]

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Some movies are just too ambitious for their own good.  Babylon sets itself up to be the ultimate tell-all on the early days of Hollywood, chronicling not just the journey from silent pantomime to stereo sound and Technicolor and beyond, […]

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I have friends who are psychologists or psychoanalysts and I suspect they would greatly enjoy this well-mounted drama.  Or perhaps they would see through it immediately and know precisely how it would conclude.  For me and the rest of us […]

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Nine years ago I saw the The Accountant and found it to be one of the best films of the year, rating it three-and-a-half stars.  I saw it again this past weekend and was amazed at how little I actually remembered […]

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