Florida Film Critics Circle reveal best of 2017… and my ballot
Today the Florida Film Critics Circle announced the winners of the best films and performances on film in 2017. How does this writer feel...
Call Me By Your Name celebrates multi-dimensional quality of loving at...
For all its patient development, one of the year's most entertaining and transporting films has to be Call Me By Your Name. Though it's about...
Florida Film Critics Circle announces nominations for Best of 2017
Today, the Florida Film Critics Circle announced who they will be voting for in the best of cinema for 2017. These are the choices...
Tonal issues in Star Wars: The Last Jedi reveals problems with...
When I saw Looper back in 2012 (Looper smartens up sci-fi tropes to riveting effect) there was no denying director Rian Johnson had found his niche...
Lady Bird celebrates rites of growing up with dynamic humor and...
No animal symbolizes escape and freedom better than a bird. The notion for earthbound dreamers that one could spring into the air and fly...
The Killing of a Sacred Deer shortchanges satire for misanthropy —...
With previous movies like Dogtooth (2009), Alps (2011) and most recently The Lobster (The Lobster offers brilliant satire of the corrupted expectations of human coupling),...
My Friend Dahmer vividly explores the anti-social life of a would-be...
Though My Friend Dahmer is about infamous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, its focus is not on the murders, rapes, necrophilia and cannibalism he committed...
The Square fingers the social BS of privileged class — a...
While Swedish director Ruben Östlund’s previous film, the incredible Force Majeure (Force Majeure asks men to confront manliness in stark but droll narrative —...
Tragedy Girls offers smart if tricky take on horror, humor and...
Just when you think horror filmmakers have run out of ideas, another twist on the genre comes around to surprise you. Tyler MacIntyre’s Tragedy...
Miami Film Festival GEMS 2017 premieres 5 films coming soon
This year’s Miami Film Festival GEMS felt like a low-key affair compared to previous versions. It began with one of the festival’s best movies,...