“A time capsule of two strutting young actors who were about to take over Hollywood, right before it didn’t quite happen. The film is a marvel of peacocking machismo, with two big, preening performances trying to top each other in every scene. When I was growing up The Pope Of Greenwich Village was everybody’s older brother’s favorite movie.”  – Crooked Marquee, 06/20/2025

“I can’t imagine what seeing The Mortal Storm must have been like for audiences when it was first released, but I can tell you how unsettling it is now. Eighty-five years ago it might have been distracting to watch Hollywood stars playing Germans who slip into authoritarianism. Today their American accents just make the movie seem more sickeningly timely.” – Crooked Marquee, 06/13/2025

“Revisiting Dogma, we see an artist’s ambitions stretched beyond his abilities. The movie is a failure, but an honest one. It’s sad to watch today, knowing Smith would never again swing for the fences like this, spending the next 25 years catering to an undiscerning fanbase with reflexive indolence, turning his own laziness and incompetence into part of the joke.” – North Shore Movies, 06/05/2025

“There’s not much to Thompson’s play beyond folksy wisecracks and pat affirmations. But director Mark Rydell’s big-screen version boasts an alchemical element which makes On Golden Pond far more than the sum of its treacly parts. The leads aren’t just movie stars, they’re movie legends. It’s twilight for the Thayers, and for an entire era of Hollywood.” – Crooked Marquee, 05/23/2025

“’Somehow in the screwed up world in which we find ourselves, a ghastly amount of people have lost sight of the fact that these are the bad guys,’ says the Somerville Theatre’s Ian Judge. ‘This narrative cannot be allowed to be blurred by modern day losers stoking the flames of antisemitism and fascism. These movies help us remember who we are at our best.’” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 05/15/2025

”He was so much taller and blonder and better-looking than everyone around him, like some sort of storybook Nordic prince. But taking another look at the films in the Brattle retrospective, one comes away with how much the actor loved to undercut his matinee idol appearance. Kilmer may have looked like a golden god, but he was often a very silly goose.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 05/12/2025

”Not a lot of film students wind up having their homework released by a major studio, but the then-27-year-old wunderkind could never be accused of thinking small. Coppola’s freewheeling adaptation of David Benedictus’ 1963 novel has style and ambition to burn. It’s a wild, visually spectacular calling card in the service of material that’s honestly pretty puerile.” – Crooked Marquee, 05/09/2025

”If your mom doesn’t have the stomach for the Brattle’s annual Mother’s Day screening of Psycho, you’ll have plenty of options on the other side of the square. The Harvard Film Archive’s Mother’s Day Mini-Marathon features seven 35mm prints of big screen classics examining maternal love in all its complex and sometimes maddening dimensions.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 05/08/2025

”Coward’s screenplay is a marvel of construction, beginning with the end of the affair as seen by a nosy neighbor of Laura’s who has no idea what kind of emotionally volatile farewell she’s just wandered into. Neither do we, until the scene is replayed at the end of the picture. Meanwhile the trains come and go, carrying missed connections and broken hearts.” – Crooked Marquee, 04/18/2025

“Wallowing in a scuzzy underworld of nudie booths and porno shoots, the sleaziest major Hollywood release of 1986 is an ugly, urgent thriller made by a director with something to prove. What sets 52 Pick-Up apart from countless other tawdry thrillers of its era are the film’s ruthless efficiency and astonishing cruelty. This movie has a mean streak a mile wide.” – Crooked Marquee, 04/11/2025