• 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 ...
  • Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

    What’s New: Weekend of March 4

    The first weekend of March brings with it three new wide releases, including the film likely to knock Deadpool off its throne, a trashy action sequel, and a Tina Fey comedy. Zootopia is Disney’s first animated feature since 2014’s Big Hero 6, and its first of two releases this year ...
  • The Boy

    The Boy

    This winter, audiences have been gifted with yet another adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s 19th-century novel Jane Eyre. From director William Brent Bell (The Devil Inside) comes the new spooky horror thriller The Boy, which… is not actually an adaptation of Jane Eyre at all. Except the film so closely mirrors ...
  • The 5th Wave

    The 5th Wave

    When it comes to film franchises based on young-adult fiction, we have seen the supernatural trend (Harry Potter, Twilight) of the aughts gradually give way to the dystopian craze sweeping theatres today. The Hunger Games is obviously the genre standard-bearer with its enormous box office returns and great reviews (and ...
  • The Boy

    What’s New: Weekend of January 22

    Three new films open in wide release this weekend, and it’s more of the same awful-looking comedies and middling genre fare that we tend to see in January. The first of these, and probably the one that will be most successful, is the comedy Dirty Grandpa. Starring Robert De Niro ...