22 July 2025

New to the Queue

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 Whatever ...   We were disappointed in Alex Ross Perry's adventurous " Pavements ," but we'll brace ourselves for the nea...
18 July 2025

Down and Inside Out

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  SUNLIGHT (A) - Sometimes low expectations can be your ally. And when a movie full of wit and charm comes along -- packaged in a road-trip ...
14 July 2025

Sympathy for the Late Sixties

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 Two featuring Mick Jagger:   PERFORMANCE (1970) (B) - Ah, London in the Swinging Sixties. Donald Cammell, who would go on to direct a few h...
10 July 2025

On Her Own

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  THE OUTRUN (B) - Every generation gets the "Days of Wine and Roses" it deserves. This one is more "Days of Sea Lions and S...
05 July 2025

Doc Watch: Fight the Power

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 Two from PBS ... UNION (A-minus) - With ultimate insider access, this granular documentary provides classic fly-on-the-wall observations o...
29 June 2025

Doc Watch: I Know You Are

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  PEE-WEE AS HIMSELF (A-minus) - I've watched this twice, and I don't have much to say. It's a powerful final reveal of Paul Reu...
27 June 2025

New to the Queue

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 Set for life ...   A debut feature, written, directed and starring Eva Victor, the gloomy comedy "Sorry, Baby."   Based on the tr...
22 June 2025

Best of Ever, Vol. 12: New Wave Classics

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  SHAMPOO (1975) (A) - With a dream cast of appealing actors, the king of the 1970s, Hal Ashby, sends up the vapidity of Beverly Hills at th...
17 June 2025

A Mandate

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  FRIENDSHIP (A-minus) - Sometimes all you need is a string of belly laughs and a plot that always go where you'd expect it to. The trai...
13 June 2025

It's All a Misunderstanding

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  THE IDEA OF YOU (B+) - Don't let me underestimate Michael Showalter again. With a trailer that looked like a silly romantic comedy, t...
09 June 2025

Life Is Short: You're Killing Me

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  PAVEMENTS (C+/Incomplete)  - Call me pedantic, but I don't need much flash or contemplation out of a rock doc, and certainly not a not...
06 June 2025

Go Rest, Young Man

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  JOSHY (2016) (A-minus) - We're delving further into the catalog of Jeff Baena, who gave us " The Little Hours " and " S...
03 June 2025

Doc Watch: The Artist's Way

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  SWAMP DOGG GETS HIS POOL PAINTED (A-minus) - Documentaries don't get much more giddy than this romp through the life and career of ...
30 May 2025

Con Jobs

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  ANOTHER SIMPLE FAVOR (C-minus) - A fun romp from 2018 didn't need a sequel and certainly not this spectacle. At least director Paul F...
25 May 2025

That '70s Drift: Listen Up

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  THE CONVERSATION (1974) (B) - Having finally gotten around to this touchstone of '70s realism, prompted by the death of Gene Hackman,...