In Theaters and Digital

Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread is as strangely intoxicating as its title is clumsy. The title refers to Daniel Day-Lewis’s fashion designer character who, unbeknownst to his noble clientele, secretly sews hidden messages into the folds of his creations. The intoxication  ...

It will take you no less than five minutes to get drawn into the mesmerizing debut feature film from 22-year-old Quinn Shephard, the writer/director/producer/editor and star of Blame.  I kid you not.  She’s a magnificent creature behind and in front of the camera, spouting  ...

Certain to cloud the legacy of Ridley Scott’s telling of the Getty kidnapping in All the Money in the World is the reality that it will always be remembered by the nearly inconceivable fact that just mere weeks before the film’s scheduled release, all of Kevin Spacey’s scenes were  ...

Mesmerizing is the word that comes to mind.  It is my initial response to the events and questions surrounding the events in The Strange Ones, a film that just last week was exclusive solely to DirecTV.  It now, thanks to a distribution deal from Vertical Entertainment and ...

The uncertainty, danger, and vulnerability of life on the wide-open plains of late 18th-century America is summed up perfectly by Rosamond Pike’s character, Rosalie when she says, “I sometimes envy the finality of death. The certainty.” She’s a prominent character in Scott ...

Check your line. Especially when you are dealing with gambling addicts. That’s one of the lessons to be learned while playing Molly’s Game. Molly’s Game begins with a masterfully composed sequence of quick edits and even-paced, unemotional narration from Jessica Chastain, who ...

The paper that brought down one presidency (and maybe another) gets its own movie and it is directed by one of the greats, Steven Spielberg.  The Post, starring Meryl Streep as Washington Post owner Kay Graham and Tom Hanks as editor Ben Bradlee, might be ...

Those of a certain age undoubtedly remember the “incident.” Weeks before the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, an unknown (at the time) assailant whacked the knee of figure skater Nancy Kerrigan with a pipe rendering her unable to attend that year’s Figure  ...

If it weren’t for Kate Winslet’s fabulous performance and some wonderfully vivid cinematography from Vittorio Storaro, the award-winning cinematographer who shot Apocalypse Now and The Last Emperor, I’d say that director Woody Allen’s Wonder Wheel is busted ...

No one gets out of here alive.  Not even Harry Dean Stanton. Lucky, with its fine textures and perfectly lived-in routine, is the flawless ode to the life and times of Harry Dean Stanton (Pretty in Pink, Twin Peaks, Paris, Texas).  Few actors get ...