One Night in Miami (2020 | USA | 114 minutes | Regina King) On February 25, 1964, Cassius Clay went into his …
Author: Chris Burlingame
Chadwick Boseman is unforgettable in his final film, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020 | USA | 94 minutes | George C. Wolfe) Before the film adaptation arrived on Netflix this …
Drew Barrymore gives her best, twice, in the otherwise disappointing The Stand In
The Stand In (2020 | USA | 101 minutes | Jamie Babbit) I really think Drew Barrymore is one of the great …
Rachel Brosnahan soars in the feminist, noir thriller I’m Your Woman
I’m Your Woman (2020 | USA | 120 minutes | Julia Hart) Being the wife of a criminal, Jean knows one very …
Alabama Snake is the weirdest and creepiest true crime doc you’ll see this year
Alabama Snake (2020 | USA | 84 minutes | Theo Love) In October of 1991, Scottsboro, Alabama Pentecostal minister Glenn Summerford reportedly …
76 Days is an intense look inside a Wuhan hospital in the early days of COVID-19
76 Days (2020 | USA | 93 minutes | Weixi Chen, Hao Wu, Anonymous) 76 Days is a pretty remarkable documentary. It …
The Mystery of D.B. Cooper is a spellbinding trip through the Northwest’s most famous unsolved case
The Mystery of D.B. Cooper (2020 | USA | 90 minutes | John Dower) It has been almost fifty years since someone …
Hillbilly Elegy is Appalachian cosplay as melodrama
Hillbilly Elegy (2020 | USA | 120 minutes | Ron Howard) J.D. Vance is a venture capitalist who got his first job …
A Chef’s Voyage will make you miss eating in restaurants, if you let it
A Chef’s Voyage (2020 | USA | 90 minutes | Remi Anfosso) There’s something uniquely satisfying about watching people who are extremely …
Dr. Dorothy Lewis finds sympathy for the devil in Alex Gibney’s Crazy, Not Insane
(2020 | USA | 115 minutes | Alex Gibney) Alex Gibney’s newest documentary, his second this fall, is an important contribution to …