Maestro, Bradley Cooper's directorial follow-up to A Star is Born, is profoundly moving. What begins as a biopic about the great composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein, turns into a beautiful exploration of marriage and growing older.
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Todd Haynes's latest film May December is trying to be many things at once, some more successful than others. Charles Melton is revelatory as Joe, a man trying to come to terms with his own victimization and abuse and I can't help but wish the film were told from his perspective
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I caught John Ford's "The Searchers" at Film Forum on 35mm last week and while the imagery is beautiful I don't think this film really works as anything more than a historical object
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With Priscilla out in wide release this weekend, here's my review of Sofia Coppola's latest from its premiere at the NY Film Fest. I found it to be an at-times harrowing story of abuse, a subtle film about the way men prey upon girls and young women
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Been reviewing new stuff over on letterboxd lately and gonna start sharing it here. For starters: Killers of the Flower Moon is a towering achievement. Like so many of Scorsese's pictures, this film is deeply interested in how greed criminality are part of the fabric of America boxd.it/562KhF