1 August 2022
Probably not quite like anything you’ve seen, Marcel The Shell With Shoes On zooms in on beauty in expected places in a way that refreshes and occasionally even astonishes.
18 July 2022
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris is a highly imaginative journey through the European capital, that proceeds with a nursery rhyme logic as prim and tidy as the jingle in its title.
4 July 2022
Enjoyable and energetic, there is almost nothing unpredictable about this tastefully silly Jane Austen knock off, and it almost entirely doesn’t matter.
17 June 2022
The Sacrifice (1986) offers a profound (albeit oblique, stripped bare, and highly metaphorical) portrayal of that all-consuming self-gift which Our Lord describes in superlative terms, “No greater love hath any man than this…”
6 June 2022
Top Gun: Maverick resembles its predecessor of some thirty-six years like microwaved pizza resembles what was delivered in the box several nights before: there are really obvious continuities, but the freshness has given way to a purely functional, strangely rubber-edged simulacrum.
24 May 2022
Winner of one of the earliest foreign language Academy Awards, Monsieur Vincent provides instructive insight into the life and spirit of the now canonized 17th century priest Vincent de Paul.
25 April 2022
Complex, compassionate, confused, and compelling, Everything Everywhere All At Once mixes up plenty of good with the bad.
12 April 2022
Both epic and intimate in scope, The Leopard examines the birth of modern Italy through its impact upon a single extraordinary individual, Don Fabrizio Corbera, Prince of Salina.
25 March 2022
A beautifully constructed film whose old-fashioned gait and loose episodic structure are almost enough to conceal the profound simplicity of vision which is one of the marks of great art.
15 March 2022
Less of a rock’em sock’em superhero adventure than a slow burning mystery noir, the latest DC Comics reboot is actually a pretty enjoyable watch.