Eleanor Morgenstein is a 94-year-old Florida resident who decides to move back to New York upon the death of her best friend Bessie. So, at this late stage in life...

I’ve never thought of Paul Thomas Anderson as an action-film kind of director. While never boring or slow, Anderson’s films are typically more cerebral, often centered around complex studies of...

Filmmaker Kogonada’s first feature film was the quirky 2017 indie “Columbus,” an intergenerational love story set against the backdrop of the Columbus, Indiana architecture scene. It received rave reviews and...

I have a love-hate relationship with director Darren Aronofsky. I’ve loved much of his work and despised some of the rest. I found his 2010 psychological drama “Black Swan” to...

In “Highest 2 Lowest,” Spike Lee’s latest joint (Yes, he’s still using that somewhat unprofessional terminology), Denzel Washington plays David King, a king maker if there ever was one. King...

Coming just two years after his first non-horror film “Beau is Afraid,” director Ari Aster continues to wallow in the extreme dreamlike black comedy genre with “Eddington,” another film so...

Kansas natives Lee and Muriel leave their family’s longtime family homestead upon his return from the Korean War, to begin a new life in San Diego. Back then, land and...

Scott McGehee’s and David Siegel’s new film “The Friend” is yet another of those that has been mis-promoted by its studio in an effort to sell tickets. From the trailer,...

Okay, try this one on for size. In the wake of a family tragedy, a disgruntled, middle-aged professor moves from his home in England to Argentina to teach English at...

Ever since I saw “Sex, Lies, and Videotape” back in 1989, I’ve been an admirer of director Steven Soderbergh. (In fact, I ranked that film at #2 on my list...