The Shape of Water
Go ahead and dive in
Movies
Lucky
Goodbye, Harry
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
With no intelligent life on any of them
Downsizing
Too much and not enough
Coco
Animated empowerment
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
Political procedural
The Greatest Showman
How about an adequate one?
The Big Sick
Serious cross-cultural hilarity
Whisky Galore
Twee and tweedy set
A Perfect Day
Wit and wisdom in a war zone
The Dark Tower
Failed fantasy
Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig has been my favorite actor since Frances Ha. Now she’s my favorite director. The coming-of-age dramedy is about as worked-out a genre as they come. So when a film this honest comes along and makes it all fresh and surprising, it’s worth a look. The actor/writer/director’s keenly observed, semi-autobiographical story of growing up […]