A Complete Unknown: Introducing Bob Dylan

Timothée Chalamet. Photo: Searchlight Pictures While watching this movie, I was reminded of the time I went to see Bob Dylan in concert. It was the tour he did together…

Minions: The Rise of Gru

In 1976, an 11-year old Gru and his minions are trying to join a group of supervillains, but instead make new enemies. The sequel to Minions (2015) was another enormous…

The Marching Band

Renowned conductor Thibaut Desormeaux (Benjamin Lavernhe) needs a bone-marrow transplant; that’s when he finds out that he’s not related to his sister, and that he has a brother (Pierre Lottin)…

The Brutalist: After Buchenwald

Adrien Brody. Photo: A24 That running time may cause some hesitation. That’s not including a fifteen-minute long intermission that’s part of the film, like in the old days. I decided…

The Boss of It All

An actor (Jens Albinus) is hired to play the manager of a company; the owner (Peter Gantzler) wants a figurehead to deal with uncomfortable issues. A refreshing change of pace…

The Broadway Melody

Two sisters (Anita Page, Bessie Love) try to break through on Broadway, but allow men to come between them. The second film to win the Best Picture Oscar was popular…

The Gorge

Two snipers (Miles Teller, Anya Taylor-Joy) are hired by Washington and Moscow to guard the east and west sides of a massive, deep gorge; they are not to have contact,…

Room at the Top: Bumps on the Road

Simone Signoret and Laurence Harvey. Photo: Romulus Films What’s in an ”angry young man”? Is it a person we should fear, someone who doesn’t know how to use his masculinity…

The Balconettes

During a heat wave in Marseilles, three friends (Souheila Yacoub, Sanda Codreanu, Noémie Merlant) flirt with a sexy neighbor across from their apartment… only to end up with a bloody…

Captain America: Brave New World

The newly elected President Thaddeus Ross (Harrison Ford) reaches out to the new Captain America (Anthony Mackie) and tells him that he wants to see a revived Avengers… but doesn’t…