It’s been a while since we had a powerful wrongly accused, racial discrimination courtroom drama. Upcoming “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” director Destin Daniel Cretton continues his collaborations with Brie Larson (“Short Term 12,” “The Glass House”) in “Just Mercy.” The subject matter and the simplistic way the story is told mirrors […]
Ethan and Joel Coen have chosen to produce a western anthology containing six stories for their latest film. Most of the main characters in each are loners, and there is at least one death in every story, but there are surprises in every one, particularly for the victims. Characteristic of the Coens as well, humor—even if it’s
What begins with a riveting opening scene, Anesthesia quickly begins to mirror recent ensemble drama Men, Women & Children by Jason Reitman.
Tommy Lee Jones’ latest film, the follow-up to his 2005 directorial debut, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, takes us as far away from the conventional western as I have seen from any modern director. The entire premise, movement heading from west to east, an unmarried female transporting crazy women back to Iowa—all of it
Most of the time it’s difficult to determine whether James Franco is making fun of a subject he is studying or if he is truly interested in promoting the psychology of a character. Child of God is the latest film adapted from the words of Cormac McCarthy (No Country For Old Men, The Road) and