A final awards season observation before we flush this turd of a year down the toilet: Critics groups and other end-of-year awards-giving organizations don’t honor the best so much as they honor the most. In other words, the award for best acting is really an award for the […]
Monday, November 21 I Am Not Your Negro (Dir.: Raoul Peck; GRADE: B+) Do not open until 2017. Demon (Dir.: Marcin Wrona; GRADE: B-) An admirable but only fitfully successful arthouse horror movie about a Polish wedding disrupted by a “dybbuk,” an angry and dissatisfied Jewish spirit that […]
Once again this year, I am devoting the entire week of Thanksgiving to catching up with the 2016 films that I missed, as well as re-watching some of my favorites of the year so far. We begin this annual cinematic orgy with an invocation to our deity: All […]
By Daniel Barnes More coffee-fueled palaver about meaningless awards and reductive categorizations? No problemo! WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 Love & Mercy ***REWATCH*** (Dir.: Bill Pohlad; GRADE: B+) The only real change from my initial assessment of this Brian Wilson biopic is that I severely underrated Paul Giamatti’s performance, probably […]
