Antarctica: A Year on Ice documentary review: totally cool
I’ve been waiting for a movie like this, and I can’t believe no one has done this before: shown us life over a full year in the most remote place on Earth.
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Hockney documentary review (London Film Festival)
You don’t need to be a fan of the artist to enjoy this spirited celebration of his life and art. But you may end up a fan afterward.
Before I Disappear movie review: barely there
The 90-minute expansion of an Oscar-winning short chooses art over heart, and lacks the emotional conviction of its progenitor.
Paddington movie review: please look in on this movie, thank you
Adorable. So witty and compassionate and bittersweet and just the right little bit of snarky that you will cry tears of joy from the perfection of it.
Horrible Bosses 2 movie review: the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad sequel
It’s not funny, only its villains speak truth, and its putative heroes are now the horrible bosses… though the movie doesn’t seem to realize that.
My Old Lady movie review (London Film Festival)
A bitterly funny pas de trois character dramedy performed by three compulsively watchable actors.
Get on Up movie review: James Brown’s bad self
Solid biopic of the godfather of funk and soul, but there’s not much genuinely memorable about it beyond Chadwick Boseman’s stunning breakout performance.
What We Do in the Shadows movie review: there will be blood
An absolutely hilarious mockumentary combination of utter silliness, social satire, pop-culture cramdown, and heartfelt pathos. And vampires.
Rosewater movie review (London Film Festival)
Jon Stewart’s first film is passionate and principled, as I expected, but also hopeful, almost serene, and even gently amusing, which I did not.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part I movie review: image manipulation
One of the best SF series ever deepens its critique of the power of propaganda in ways complicated, intriguingly contradictory, and a little bit horrifying.
