• Blow the Man Down

    Capsule Reviews: March 2020 Digital Releases

    The Banker Biopic of Bernard Garrett (Anthony Mackie) and Joe Morris (Samuel L. Jackson), two businessmen in the 1950s American South who strike it rich and buy a bank in Texas in order to help African American people get loans — which they can only accomplish by hiring Matt Steiner ...
  • Bacurau

    Capsule Reviews: March 2020 Limited Releases

    Bacurau Genre-bending thriller about a tiny village in Brazil that suddenly begins to experience strange phenomena following the death of its elderly matriarch. Shortly after the funeral, residents of Bacurau notice that their village has vanished from the map. Meanwhile, the water truck arrives in town with a bullet hole ...
  • The Hunt

    Capsule Reviews: March 2020 Wide Releases

    Bloodshot Vin Diesel as an American soldier who is murdered, then resurrected as a superhuman cyborg. Once brought back from the dead, he goes rogue and seeks revenge on the man who had killed him and his wife — but then other memories come back, and he begins to wonder ...
  • Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made

    Capsule Reviews: February 2020 Digital Releases

    All the Bright Places Calling this a movie about sad teens in love is unfairly reductive, but that doesn’t mean it’s an inaccurate description. Violet (Elle Fanning) is still reeling from the car accident she survived several months earlier, but which her sister did not — and we first meet ...
  • The Lodge

    Capsule Reviews: February 2020 Limited Releases

    And Then We Danced Swedish-Georgian drama about Merab (Levan Gelbakhiani), a young dancer training in the National Georgian Ensemble in Tblisi, whose world is shaken by the arrival of a handsome new dancer, Irakli (Bachi Valishvili). As far as gay love stories go, this is honestly rather basic and familiar ...
  • The Invisible Man

    Capsule Reviews: February 2020 Wide Releases

    Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn The latest installment in the DC Extended Universe is a mixed bag. Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn remains the only good thing to come from Suicide Squad, and this movie picks up some time after that, following Harley’s messy ...
  • Troop Zero

    Capsule Reviews: January 2020 Digital Releases

    A Fall from Grace Grace (Crystal Fox) is a respected middle-aged bank employee who’s been arrested for murdering her hunky younger husband (Mehcad Brooks). Jasmine (Bresha Webb) is a young lawyer sent to get Grace to sign a plea deal — only to become invested in finding out the truth ...
  • Beanpole

    Capsule Reviews: January 2020 Limited Releases

    The Assistant A most timely #metoo film about a day in the life of a young woman working an entry-level position for a big-time movie producer in New York City. Writer-director Kitty Green (Casting JonBenet) opts for a minimalist aesthetic approach, focused instead on examining how toxic behaviour and abuse ...
  • The Rhythm Section

    Capsule Reviews: January 2020 Wide Releases

    Bad Boys for Life Since the first two installments of this franchise, both directed by Michael Bay, were so dreadful, I was not expecting anything from this — but to my great surprise, this one is actually good! Belgian directors Adil and Bilall, in their first Hollywood feature, stick to ...
  • Heaven Knows What

    Capsule Reviews: May 2015 Limited Releases

    Aloft Indie drama which screened in competition at Berlin, about a desperate mother (Jennifer Connelly) who turns to a faith healer to cure her terminally ill son, and also about her traumatized other son (Cillian Murphy) who tracks her down 20 years later in the Canadian Arctic. Peruvian filmmaker Claudia ...