Lydia Tár is broken. Pulled from the podium, kicked out of her Berlin apartment, barred from seeing her daughter, the disgraced conductor returns to her family house on Long Island, pokes around her childhood room—perfectly preserved as if she were … Continue reading 2022: Accommodating for Others
Reporting from the 2022 Telluride Film Festival. It all starts so innocently: the invitation to a sleepover. The invited wants to go, but her father won’t let her. Not in a million years. He’s the type who installed a barrel … Continue reading BONES AND ALL
On Friday, Jan. 8, the Denver Film Critics Society (DFCS)—16 writers and broadcasters working in and around the Mile High City, of which I am one—cast their preliminary ballots for this year’s DFCS awards. How it works: Members are asked … Continue reading Denver Film Critics Society 2020 Ballot
Dunkirk—the latest feature from filmmaker Christopher Nolan—isn’t like any other war movie. That’s because Dunkirk isn’t the story of a famous victory but of an infamous retreat. The year is 1940, and the German army has surrounded the British on the beaches … Continue reading DUNKIRK
What motivates an artist to return time and time again to the formative and gentle years of childhood? Is it a rejection of the adult world, the world of responsibility and accountability? Or is it a plea to the next … Continue reading THE BFG
James B. Donovan (Tom Hanks) is a kind man in a cruel world. Rare considering that Donovan is an insurance lawyer in the middle of the Cold War. Donovan—who served on the Nuremberg Trails—is recruited to defend a captured Soviet … Continue reading BRIDGE OF SPIES
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