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September 2015

September 26, 2015
Looking back at the best and worst films of this year’s festival, plus a teaser...
September 19, 2015
This documentary profile of Charlie Hebdo takes the high road in honoring these artists’ life...
September 16, 2015
Thomas McCarthy dramatizes the heroic efforts of the “Boston Globe” in breaking open this story,...
September 15, 2015
Director Cary Joji Fukunaga (True Detective) joins with Idris Elba and a remarkable new child...
September 14, 2015
Director Patricio Guzman links the fates Chiles’s indigenous people and those who vanished under Pinochet’s...
September 13, 2015
Paolo Sorrentino’s newest film splendidly picks up where his Oscar winning “The Great Beauty” left...
September 12, 2015
With this saga of three displaced persons from Sri Lanka, French director Jacques Audiard has...
September 07, 2015
Plus, what makes film fests meaningful and fun (it’s not the red carpets).

August 2015

August 30, 2015
All the more powerful for its restraint, this new German film shows us a Jewish...
August 23, 2015
In the midst of the summer movie doldrums, here are a few TV series worth...
August 17, 2015
Though flawed in places, this N.W.A biopic still shines and merits your time.
August 09, 2015
One of the best fictional films I’ve seen this year, “White God” highlights an issue...
August 04, 2015
Pure Flix’s follow up to "God’s Not Dead" – now available for home viewing -...
August 03, 2015
Mark Ruffalo excels as a manic-depressive Bostonian, struggling with the demands of parenthood and marriage.

July 2015

July 26, 2015
“Mr. Holmes” serves up a pleasing coda to the Sherlock Holmes mythos, with Ian McKellen...
July 20, 2015
Now available for instant viewing, “What Happened, Miss Simone?” paints a detailed portrait of this...
July 13, 2015
Its story of a teen facing cancer recalls last year’s The Fault in our Stars,...

June 2015

June 25, 2015
So joyous and enriching, this is my favorite movie of the first half of 2015.
June 22, 2015
This exuberant, metaphor-rich peek into the mind of an 11 year old will please both...
June 15, 2015
Falling short in characterization, “Chagall-Malevich” compensates with vivid visuals and a suitably romantic score.
June 14, 2015
Then again, you probably already knew that.
June 08, 2015
This beautiful, unconventional biopic gives us an intimate look at the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson,...
June 01, 2015
Veteran documentarian Alex Gibney puts Scientology under the dissecting microscope, but in the process raises...

May 2015

May 26, 2015
Mary Dore’s excellent documentary briskly and exuberantly captures the early years of second-wave American feminism.
May 18, 2015
What a lovely day indeed, when you’re watching the smartest, most inventive action film since...
May 10, 2015
Ex Machina pleasingly serves up a suspenseful science fiction tale as well as an intriguing...
May 01, 2015
Wherein I introduce myself and my hopes for this blog.
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