20TH CENTURY WOMEN * * *
Starring Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, Lucas Jade Zumann and Billy Crudup. Written and directed by Mike Mills.
Category Archives: Reviews
BRIGHT LIGHTS: STARRING CARRIE FISHER AND DEBBIE REYNOLDS
BRIGHT LIGHTS: STARRING CARRIE FISHER AND DEBBIE REYNOLDS * * * 1 / 2
A documentary directed by Alexis Bloom and Fisher Stevens. Featuring Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Todd Fisher, Eddie Fisher and Griffin Dunne.
SILENCE
“Stubbornly unlike anything you’ll find in arthouses today, this severe and intensely challenging picture owes more to Ingmar Bergman’s haunted spiritual crises or Robert Bresson’s austere allegories than any contemporary models. The fact that it exists at all is astonishing, the fact that it’s a big-budget release from a major studio is a miracle.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 01/04/2017
PASSENGERS
PASSENGERS * 1 / 2
Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne and Andy Garcia. Screenplay by Jon Spaihts. Directed by Morten Tyldum.
PATRIOTS DAY
“The movie spends so much time fellating its bogus hero, were it about an actual person Patriots Day would seem like a North Korean propaganda film. But instead it’s just the tasteless delusions of a vain movie star recreating his hometown’s most horrifying moments so he can dress up and play policeman. Everyone involved should be ashamed.” – North Shore Movies, 12/20/2016
ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY
ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY * * 1 / 2
Starring Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Alan Tudyk and Forest Whitaker. Screenplay by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy. Directed by Gareth Edwards.
LA LA LAND
LA LA LAND * *
Starring Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt and J.K. Simmons. Written and directed by Damien Chazelle.
JACKIE
JACKIE * * *
Starring Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup and John Hurt. Screenplay by Noah Oppenheim. Directed by Pablo Larrain.
THINGS TO COME, ELLE AND THE YEAR OF ISABELLE HUPPERT
“Huppert stars in two films so oddly similar in surface specifics and yet so wildly divergent in tone it’s an almost show-offy display of her talents to have Things To Come and Elle playing across the hall from one another at area arthouses. Suddenly the grande dame of European kink cinema is becoming this year’s Oscar season It Girl.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 12/06/2016
LION
LION * 1 / 2
Starring Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, Sunny Pawar, David Wenham and Nicole Kidman. Screenplay by Luke Davies. Directed by Garth Davis.
SPLICED PERSONALITY 