”It can also be seen as the codification of Pacino’s movie star persona, the first time he started treating that magnificent head of hair as a co-headliner and when his squeaky Michael Corleone whisper got gruff. The ending of the film is the beginning of the broadly theatrical, ‘LOUD-quiet-LOUD’ monologues that became the actor’s signature, for better and worse.” – Crooked Marquee, 01/19/2024

”The role instead went to Walter Matthau, during that wonderful stretch of the 1970s when a man with a self-described ‘face like a catcher’s mitt’ could be a movie star. There aren’t many films in which you can imagine Matthau swapping places with Eastwood – though The Bridges Of Madison County would be a corker – but Charley Varrick is a surprisingly comfy fit.” – Crooked Marquee, 01/05/2024

”Full of oddball digressions and magic realist flights of fancy, the film has the loose, expansive nature of a neighborhood legend, like a rambling tall tale passed down and embellished from one generation to the next. Household Saints is a jewel from an era that was a treasure trove for American independent cinema, yet for the longest time you couldn’t see it anywhere.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 01/03/2024

”Not every first-time filmmaker comes out of the gate with a stone cold masterpiece, but a surprising number have come pretty close. Debut features arrive in all shapes and sizes, as we can see from a wonderfully extensive retrospective running at the Coolidge Corner Theatre over the next few months in celebration of the venue’s upcoming expansion.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 12/01/2023

“America’s loss of innocence writ large – and I mean really large – The Deer Hunter is a work of such self-conscious, chest-thumping grandiosity that it’s easy to see why the film has fallen out of favor in some circles. Yet there’s something elemental about the movie’s boys’ adventure machismo, a primal force that overpowers Cimino’s more cartoonish flourishes.” – Crooked Marquee, 11/17/2023

“Unavailable for years except via bootlegs and old, out-of-print Miramax DVDs, director Chen Kaige’s magisterial 1993 melodrama Farewell My Concubine is finally back on the big screen, celebrating its 30th anniversary at the Brattle Theatre in a spectacular new uncut 4K digital restoration. Even if you’ve seen the movie, you’ve never seen it like this.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 11/03/2023

”Slyly makes a metaphor out of the literal skeletons beneath 1980s prosperity as exemplified by the Cuesta Verde development, lending this haunted house picture a thematic complexity that foreshadows Spielberg’s more overt interrogations of American myths a decade or so later. I mean, there’s a reason the movie begins with the National Anthem.” – Crooked Marquee, 10/27/2023

“You know that horror films are always better with a crowd. Shocktober brings an embarrassment of riches for Boston area moviegoers looking for something even more terrifying than trying to park in Salem. With more than two dozen frightening films screening locally during the run up to All Hallows’ Eve, here are six favorites to get you started.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 10/25/2023

“Nobody’s better at feigning astonishment at things she obviously knew were going to happen. I’ve long thought one of the smartest things Swift ever did was not learning how to dance very well. She’s such a disciplined workhorse she could probably do so in a weekend, but the slightly goofy gait helps keep her relatable, at once larger than life and the girl next door.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 10/17/2023