Express Yourself
And Then We Danced by George Wolf Despite its title, And Then We Danced uses the art form as more metaphor than setting, as a young dancer fights for the…read more →
film reviews
Speak No Evil
Resistance by George Wolf In the opening minutes of Resistance, a young Jewish girl asks her parents, “Why do they hate us?” Then, just before the end credits, stark onscreen…read more →
Zombie Eat World
The Night Eats the World by Hope Madden People like to make lists. For some people, it’s a bucket list. Some like to keep track of the celebrities they are…read more →
Honorable Mentions
The Traitor (Il traditore) by George Wolf If you think Scorsese set the bar for three and a half hour mob epics, well, you may have a point. But, although…read more →
Money, It’s a Hit
Greed by George Wolf Greed is a film with a big, timely target and a handful of well-groomed darts. But as much as it consistently lands shots on the board,…read more →
Poles Apart
Downhill by George Wolf If you’re a pair of American filmmakers out to remake an exceptional foreign film from the last decade, you gotta pick a side. Are you gonna…read more →
Secret Garden
The Garden Left Behind by Hope Madden Newcomer Charlie Guevara charms in Flavio Alves’s drama The Garden Left Behind with a bittersweet performance as Tina, an undocumented Mexican trans woman…read more →
In the Name of the Son
Three Christs by Hope Madden “Three grown men who believe they are Jesus Christ—it’s almost comical,” reads Bradley Whitford’s Clyde, a Ypsilanti mental patient who happens to be one of…read more →
Parentification
Mickey and the Bear by Christie Robb In a nuanced coming-of-age story, writer/director Annabelle Attanasio delicately maps the rocky emotional landscape of high-school student Mickey Peck (Camila Morrone). Mickey balances…read more →
Parasites
Knives Out by Hope Madden It’s interesting that three of the most deliciously watchable films of 2019 exist to question the societal value of the rich. Earlier this year, the…read more →