The BFG (2016)
Set in London, a clever but unhappy, insomnia-afflicted orphan named Sophie (Barnhill, “4 O’Clock Club”) wakes up in the middle of the evening and sees something outside the orphanage window. Investigating, she discovers a...
Category: Drama
Me Before You (2016)
Sweet but predictable, Me Before You will likely please those among the target demographic that predominantly consists of women looking to smile and cry, not minding that most of the emotional beats are manipulated and manufactured...
Louder Than Bombs (2015)
Danish-born, Norwegian-raised filmmaker Joachim Trier (Oslo August 31, Reprise) directs and co-scripts his first English-language film in Louder Than Bombs, a thoughtful examination of how perceptions of reality are often far from accurate, even among people...
Elvis & Nixon (2016)
Taken in December of 1970, the photograph of the meeting between President Richard Nixon and superstar entertainer Elvis Presley is the most requested among all photographs in the National Archives. Not much is known...
45 Years (2015)
I’ve often wondered, when reflecting on the James Cameron blockbuster, Titanic, how a woman could live to the age of 100, have been married and have children with another man, and still consider her few...
The Big Short (2015)
Absurdist slapstick comedy director Adam McKay (Anchorman 2, Talladega Nights) comes into his own with The Big Short, a semi-comedic adaptation of the Michael Lewis non-fiction novel about the build-up to the calamitous housing market crash...
The Revenant (2015)
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning film Birdman sees him go for a Western adventure of the most potent variety in The Revenant, a grueling tale of bloody revenge set in the wilderness of (presumably) the...
In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
Based on the historical novel of the same name by Nathaniel Philbrick, published in the year 2000, In the Heart of the Sea relates the story of a New England whaling ship known as the “Essex”,...
Creed (2015)
I went out on a bit of a limb in proclaimingFruitvale Station the best film of 2013. It was the debut film of previously unknown director Ryan Coogler, and yet, no other film moved me...
Spotlight (2015)
In 2001, the Boston Globe’s new editor-in-chief is Marty Baron (Schreiber, Pawn Sacrifice), a Jewish media exec coming in from Miami to take over the reins of a paper that has always catered to a...