DIRECTED BY JEFF NICHOLS/2016
Jeff Nichols' 2012 film Mud was a refreshing and engaging look at the south, its darker tendencies, and wonderful beauty. For hi...
DIRECTED BY DENIS VILLENEUVE/2016
Is the new science fiction blockbuster Arrival an overly gloomy look at things to come? Or is it a note of hope amid a despe...
Or, What Might Be This Decade's English Patient
DIRECTOR: KENNETH LONERGAN/2016
When The English Patient was rounding the awards circuit in late ‘96/ear...
Director Mel Gibson/2016
Hacksaw Ridge is the true story of Desmond T. Doss (Andrew Garfield) who was the first Conscientious Objector to win the Medal of Hono...
Director Barry Jenkins/2016
Barry Jenkins delivers a beautiful, warm, and difficult story of one boy's journey to adulthood. This journey is not for the faint ...
Compelling Documentary on America's Past (and Present) Racial Injustice
#33: 13th (2016)
Director: Ava Duvernay
I am a white woman living near St. Louis;...
Robbers, Rangers, and Recession Make for Rewarding Cinema
DIRECTED BY DAVID MACKENZIE/2016
Like most things, there's a lot more to this story.
Hell or High ...
Meryl Streep Is Perfectly Awful as a Singer with Delusions of Talent
Director: Stephen Frears/2016
What a strange story this is, and all the stranger for b...
For One Child, Disney Movies Opened Up the World
DIRECTOR: ROGER ROSS WILLIAMS/2016
Owen Suskind was a bright, verbal three year old when autism cut him of...
Finding the parenting contrast between "Power to the People" and "Stick it to the Man"
DIRECTED BY MATT ROSS/2016
Actor Matt Ross wrote and directed his sec...
