Steve McQueen’s “Blitz” opens with a harrowing moment where firefighters respond to one of the many burning buildings in London under Nazi bombing raids. A firefighter’s face smashes into a firehose, which…
Here is one of those wild cinematic gestures that almost forces the viewer to either love it or hate it. Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez” nearly defies description. It’s an opera about modern…
It is hard to keep a big franchise down. Following an imposed hiatus and the loss of its major star, Taylor Sheridan’s “Yellowstone” returns, grasping on to its most melodramatic impulses to…
There is a particular fear when it comes to questioning everything you believe in, even more so when someone presents a fierce challenge to those beliefs. Hugh Grant is the ultimate troll in…
Some of the most oppressive policies or practices in a society can stay under the surface. Cillian Murphy plays a man slowly building to confront such a reality in “Small Things Like…
The guilty conscience is one of the great themes in all dramas because we all have one for large or small reasons. Clint Eastwood’s “Juror #2” is an engrossing tale of a…
