Notes from Saturday at Telluride where the festival saw the US Premieres of Jay Kelly, the Mastermind, and Frankenstein.
Category: Reviews
Telluride 2025: Bugonia; Hamnet; Pillion
Notes from Saturday at Telluride where the festival saw the world premiere of Hamnet and North American premieres of Bugonia and Pillion.
Telluride 2025: Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere; Ballad of a Small Player; La Grazia
Notes from Friday at Telluride where the festival had world premieres of Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere and the Ballad of a Small Player.
The Roses is divorce comedy without thorns
The Roses (2025 | USA | 105 minutes | Jay Roach) In 1989, Danny Devito re-teamed with frequent collaborators Michael Douglas and …
Austin Butler Anchors Caught Stealing, Aronofsky’s Fast-Paced, Chaotic Crime Film
Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing has all the ingredients of a great crime film: Russian mobsters, car chases, shifting allegiances, stolen money, and, of course, a cat who steals the show.
Ron Howard gives salacious true story of Floreana castaways the Hollywood treatment in Eden
Ron Howard dives into the dark scheming heart of humanity in recounting a true story of self-promotional Galapagos settlers in the 1930s.
Margaret Qualley is a force of nature, Honey Don’t is okay. I guess
Margaret Qualley stars as Honey O’Donohue, a Bakersfield, CA private investigator on a mission to uncover the suspicious circumstances behind a woman’s death just before their scheduled meeting. The case pulls her into the orbit of a shady church and its sleazy pastor, Reverend Drew (Chris Evans). Qualley is magnetic throughout, commanding attention with her rapid-fire PI cadence. This is absolutely her movie, and she almost saves it from itself. Almost.
David Mackenzie’s new thriller Relay doesn’t deliver on the suspense
David Mackenzie’s new thriller starring Riz Ahmed offers a fresh take on an espionage suspense film—but Relay doesn’t take full advantage of its unique aspects.
Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest stumbles, even as Denzel soars
Spike Lee’s “re-imagining” of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low opens with Matthew Libateque’s glossy footage of New York City waking up in a golden sunrise reflected off shiny buildings. “Oh What A Beautiful Morning” from Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! blasts over the soundtrack. It’s definitely a beautiful morning, but for record exec David King it will be anything but a beautiful day.
Cloud drags us down to the gritty world of the dark web market
Ryôsuke Yoshii (Masaki Suda) seems harmless enough; a factory worker that dreams of bigger and better things if he could only get his hands on more cash. His way out is making backdoor deals under the moniker Ratel (some may call it swindling) with desperate, or just naive, people needing to offload bulk products.