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Daily Archives: August 25, 2023
Movie Review: A Meditation on Being a Woman in a Troubled Place and Time — “Before, Now & Then”
“Before, Now & Then” is a dreamy Indonesian drama about changing expectations and ideas of “freedom” that pass through the life of a Muslim woman through twenty years of her life. This Berlin Film Festival award winner is a period … Continue reading
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Netflixable? “You are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah”
Boy, it takes more than a few minutes to get one’s mind around the idea that Adam Sandler’s produced and co-stars in a comedy which you simply must use the word “endearing” to describe. “Charming” works its way in, “kind … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Vacation Friends 2” and Buscemi Too
The stakes are higher, the cast has lost any pandemic-paunch/puffiness and everybody tries harder in “Vacation Friends 2,” which is something, I guess. And having John Cena reveal to the world, via a scripted character’s little admission, what we’ve all … Continue reading
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Movie Review: It’s a Liam Neeson movie — Who do you think faces “Retribution?”
You think you know what you’re going to get from a Liam Neeson thriller titled “Retribution.” But his latest, the third remake of a “There’s a bomb in your car and you can’t get out” Spanish thriller (“El Desconocido”), has … Continue reading
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