“Bong’s films turn ideology into action. Think of the class warfare allegory in Snowpiercer as the disenfranchised in the back cattle cars fought their way to the front of the train, or the giant reptile monster in The Host growing out of a U.S. Army base’s reckless pollution. His stories are his political stances, and every shot in Parasite is some sort of argument.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 10/18/2019

“The bad boy melodramatist from Madrid turned seventy last month, and this is the kind of picture an artist makes when they’re getting on in years and taking stock of things. It’s a gentle, episodic movie about mending fences and making peace, and how part of getting older is realizing there are some things you should apologize for and some you still shouldn’t.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 10/16/2019

“Enormous fun to watch even if it has no real reason to exist, El Camino is an agreeably stripped-down affair, more like an epilogue to the series than a standalone feature of its own. Written and directed by Gilligan, the movie conjures that familiar Breaking Bad mojo of characters constantly escaping out of a dangerous situation into an alternative that’s infinitely worse.” – North Shore Movies, 10/12/2019

“Attempting to inflate this tawdry true crime tale into some sort of metaphysical meditation, Hawley leaves out the diaper detail, which is a shame because the movie’s so full of shit it could’ve used one. It’s impossible not to wonder what the hell he was trying to get at here, overloading every scene with show-offy camera tricks and empty intonations.” – North Shore Movies, 10/10/2019

“An oddball, archly comic examination of the 2016 Panama Papers scandal, this is in many ways a typical Soderbergh picture, in that it’s a sardonically amusing tale of economic malfeasance fixated on process and procedure. But it’s also weirdly half-baked and under-realized, the most slapdash of the director’s efforts since his 2002 Full Frontal.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 10/10/2019