Frank Langella in Robot and Frank Can a robot and a human be friends? Writer…
Movies, Movie Reviews, Filmmakers
Reviews of new movies, plus an archive of 6 years of past reviews!
Michael Kelly, Robin Wright and Kevin Spacey in House of Cards (photo: Patrick Harbron, Netflix)…
Sarah Polley went behind the camera to look frankly at her family’s past in Stories…
Greta Gerwig in Frances Ha (IFC Films) What is thoroughly charming about Frances Ha is…
Birders: The Central Park Effect In spring 2001, when my husband and I bought our…
Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty. (Columbia Pictures) In 2011, before the May 2nd capture…
Onata Aprile plays Maisie in What Maisie Knew. What Maisie Knew is about a divorced couple…
David Lynch with students at Maharishi University of Management. DRUM ROLL, PLEASE: visionary filmmaker David…
Brandon Routh as Superman in Man of Steel. I have never really liked Superman as…
Iron Man 3: The Chinese version Author’s note: Hello! I am back to write about…
Matthew McConaughey in Mud In Arkansas on the banks of the Mississippi, 14-year-old Ellis (Tye…
Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man 3 A sequel is an add-on to a tale…
Chadwick Boseman as Jackie Robinson in 42. (Warner Bros. Pictures) If you love baseball enough…
Jude Law and Catherine Zeta-Jones in Side Effects. Every prescription medication carries a mega dose…
Maggie Smith plays opera diva Jean Horton in Quartet. (© The Weinstein Company) In his…














