Film
Frances McDormand in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Playwright-movie director-screenwriter Martin McDonagh customarily provokes, startles, unsettles, even repels, often with sudden violence. |
Dan Stevens as Charles Dickens in The Man Who Invented Christmas.
How Charles Dickens wrote the most popular Christmas story of all time. |
Laurence Fishburne, Bryan Cranston and Steve Carell in Last Flag Flying.
If you were of age during the Vietnam War, your objection to it could largely be boiled down into a simple phrase: It was a stupid war, and who would want to... |
Barry Keoghan in The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Yorgos Lanthimos’s followup to his absurdly hilarious The Lobster is a unpleasant and impenetrable update on Greek mythology set in an Ohio suburb. |
Oakes Fegley and Julianne Moore in Todd Haynes's Wonderstruck.
Todd Haynes’s Wonderstruck is one of those movies that comes around maybe once a year that compels me to ask you to just go and see it without reading anything... |
 Even on its limited terms, Rob Reiner’s well-intended film has trouble getting a grasp on its subject. |
 A conscientious effort that ultimately fails to explain the real troubles that A. A. Milne’s beloved stories caused his offspring. |
Reece Shearsmith in Borley Rectory, which shows Sunday, November 12 at noon.
If you can only see 10 movies during the 10-day festival, well, here you go… |