My latest roundup features reviews of new releases: the powerfully evocative love story between two young women, “The Beautiful Summer” (streaming); the impressive documentaries, “Electric Lady Studios—A Jimi Hendrix Vision” and “Modernism Inc.” (both in theaters); and...
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This week’s roundup includes reviews of several new releases, including the biopic about a Czech composer who predated Mozart, “The Bohemian” (streaming); the serial-killer drama “Longlegs” (in theaters); the Emily Blunt-Ryan Gosling rom-com, “The Fall Guy” (4K); and...
This week’s roundup includes reviews of “Fresh Kills,” the impressive writing-directing-acting effort by Jennifer Esposito (streaming); the new “Rocky” box set (4K); fascinating documentaries, on Blu-ray, about artist Anselm Keifer (“Anselm”) and Pink Floyd founder Syd...
This week’s roundup includes a trio of standout features: the Blu-ray release of last year’s best film, Marco Bellocchio’s exciting, densely political and religious thriller “Kidnapped”; the 4K release of the latest—last?—animated film from legendary Japanese director...
This week’s roundup includes reviews of a mix of old and new titles, from Criterion’s 4K release of Sam Peckinpah’s 1973 revisionist western “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” and two vintage Sherlock Holmes Blu-ray releases with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee as the...
When Paul McCartney released his first Archive Collection set in 2010—Band on the Run, often considered his greatest post-Beatles work (for me, it’s just behind Ram)—he included One Hand Clapping, a long-unseen 50-minute TV documentary from 1974 about Wings, including...
This week’s roundup includes reviews of “Last Summer,” 75-year-old Catherine Breillat’s latest study of sexual politics; a documentary about the first women’s World Cup, “Copa 71”; a Powell and Pressburger classic, “The Small Back Room”; and “The Underground Railroad,”...
This week’s roundup includes reviews of several new movies in theaters: “Firebrand,” with Alicia Vikander and Jude Law; “Ride,” with C. Thomas Howell and Annabeth Gish; “Thelma,” with June Squibb and Richard Roundtree in his final role; and “Treasure,” with Stephen Fry...
This week’s roundup features reviews of a tearjerker starring Richard Gere (“Longing,” in theaters), the latest monsterverse adventure (“Godzilla + Kong—A New Empire,” on 4K), and a TV miniseries about the Sex Pistols (“Pistol,” on streaming). In-Theater Release of the...
This week’s roundup includes reviews of two animated films (“Robot Dreams” in theaters and “Kung Fu Panda 4” on UHD) as well as features as disparate as the latest senior romp with Diane Keaton (“Summer Camp,” in theaters) and an Italian migrant drama (“Io Capitano,”...
