The Kindness of Strangers seems to have slipped into existence with few people noticing. Except for a couple savage reviews, you won’t see much about the film online. The movie was released in December 2019, just before Covid kneecapped the world. Between that and the Rotten Tomato score of 31%, I don’t think it has […]
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SWAN SONGMOVIE REVIEW Last night, I needed to take a vacation from real life, so I watched a movie called Swan Song. Mahershala Ali and Naomie Harris play married couple, Cameron and Poppy Turner. Unknown to Poppy, her husband is about to die. Cameron meets with Dr. Scott (Glen Close) to discuss a radical option,
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BANDITSMOVIE REVIEW My mother broke her arm last week and is now staying with us. As you might imagine, it has been a challenging few days, so we decided to watch a movie last night. Finding the right film is always tricky. Mom is no fan of bad language, violence, angst, subtitles and you can
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THE DIGMOVIE REVIEW When The Dig first came out, I read a tepid review about it in the Washington Post. Recently, I’ve caused Bruce to suffer through a serious of angsty, morose, head banging art films. Worrying that the The Dig would fit into that category, I decided to pass. However, positive comments by a
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NEWS OF THE WORLDMOVIE REVIEW After a spectacularly rough week (don’t ask), Bruce and I decided to have a date night, which in pandemic world meant he’d bring home take out after work. (Our two favorite places for special occasions are HAMILTON’S and ORZO.) However, Bruce wound up stuck in the clinic. By the time
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MISS JUNETEENTHMOVIE REVIEW Miss Juneteenth is a movie that I happened upon last night while scrolling through new releases. The film had premiered at Sundance this past January and that caught my eye. I had no idea what to expect. Channing Godfrey Peoples wrote and directed Miss Juneteenth. She did an excellent job with both.
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WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE?MOVIE REVIEW I thoroughly enjoyed Maria Semple’s quirky book, Where’d You Go, Bernadette and looked forward to viewing the movie adaptation. The day after it opened, I went to the theater with friends. Cate Blanchette is a spectacular actress. She played the part of Bernadette to perfection, with exactly the right amounts of
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LEAVE NO TRACEMOVIE REVIEW My husband and I watched Leave No Trace last night. He hated it. He thought the movie was bleak and sad. He felt furious with the father during the entire film. I loved the movie—the nuanced acting, the plot, the camerawork, the casting choices, the understated and unexpected way that the screenwriters,
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IF BEALE STREET COULD TALKMOVIE REVIEW Every Friday, I read the movie reviews in The Washington Post.The articles usually help me find great films and steer away from bad ones, with one notable exception: Adam Sandler’s Punch Drunk Love. They liked it. I loathed it and loath is too nice a word for how I
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A QUIET PLACEMOVIE REVIEW I do not like horror movies. They scare me. Until recently, I’ve only watched two in my life: The Haunting of Hill Houseand The Sixth Sense. Here is a terrifying clip from The Haunting of Hill House. Don’t watch it. The scariest scene in The Sixth Sense is when kitchen cabinets
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