Jay Kelly: High-Wattage Cast Unserved by Director Noah Baumbach’s Wobbly Satire
ReviewJim SlotekJay Kelly, Noah Baumbach, Emily Mortimer, George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, Jim Broadbent, Riley Keough, Netflix, Drama, Comedy, Dramedy
The Beast in Me: Ace Casting Propels New Netflix Cat-and-Mouse Thriller
By Karen Gordon
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The Running Man: A Good Run, But Not Wright’s Fastest
ReviewJim SlotekRe-imagining The Running Man, Director Edgar Wright, The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Stephen King, Michael Cera, Glen Powell, Colman Domingo, Josh Brolin, William H. Macy, Martin Herlihy, Sean Hayes
Original-Cin Q&A: Edgar Wright on 'Reimagining' Stephen King's The Running Man
Sentimental Value: Joachim Trier Unearths Buried Emotions in a Drama-Oriented Clan
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekStories about stage families, Buried emotions, Suicide, Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value, Writer Eskil Vogt, The Worst Person In The World, Cannes Film Festival, Renate Reinsve, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Stellan Skarsgård, Elle Fanning
The Guelph Film Festival: The One You Shouldn’t Miss (But Probably Have)
Original-Cin Q&A: Sentimental Value’s Starry Cast Discusses their Acclaimed Drama
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekSentimental Value, Cannes, TIFF '25, Elle Fanning, Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Renate Reinsve, The Worst Person in the World, Joachim Trier, Drama, Family drama
After All: Three Generations of Women Learn to Forgive in Family Drama
Windsor International Film Fest: Sometimes an Oscar Predictor, Sometimes Just a Good Time
By Chris Knight
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Preview, ReviewJim SlotekFilm festivals as award season bellwethers, Windsor International Film Festival, Anora, Tuner, Danish doc Take the Money and Run, ark Chan-wook's No Other Choice, Two Women, The Cost of Heaven, Montreal, My Beautiful, Mr. Goalie
Measures for a Funeral: Story of a Lost Concerto Goes Far Beyond the Music
By Chris Knight
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Pluribus: Vince Gilligan’s latest, one angry woman’s fight against a world that’s 'Breaking Glad'
ReviewJim SlotekAI takeover stories, Pluribus, Vince Gilligan, Breaking Bad, Rhea Seehorn, Miriam Shor, Enforced happiness, Karolina Wydra, Carlos-Manuel Vesga, Samba Schutte
Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk: Seeking Life Amid Gaza’s Ruins
Nuremberg: The Film Itself is a Bit of a Trial
ReviewJim SlotekNuremberg, Hermann Göring psychoanalyzed, Dr. Douglas Kelley, 2013 non-fiction book, The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, Director co-writer James Vanderbilt, Michael Shannon, Richard E. Grant, Colin Hanks
Train Dreams is a Luminous, Humanist Story of a Life Led a Century Ago
By Chris Knight
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ReviewJim SlotekPeriod piece life story, Train Dreams, Based on the novel of the same name, Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, William H. Macy, Director Clint Bentley, Jockey, Sing Sing, Clifton Collins Jr., Kerry Condon
Christy: Solid Acting by Sydney Sweeney, a Tired Genre and a Gut-Punch Finish
ReviewJim SlotekSports biopics, Female boxer Christy Martin, Christy movie, Sydney Sweeney, Movies with a domestic abuse theme, Ben Foster, Naomi Graham, Chad L. Coleman, Merritt Wever, Director David Michôd
Toronto Reel Asian International Film Fest: Planet-Wide Asian Tales, and Even One From Space
Review, PreviewJim SlotekToronto Reel Asian Film Festival, Feature films about Asian diaspora, Space Cadet, Montreal-based DJ Kid Koala, Toronto-born writer-director Timothy Yeung, Finch & Midland, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards, Victor C.H. Fan, Montréal, ma belle, Joan Chen, Director Xiaodan He, Akashi, Director Mayumi Yoshida
Die My Love: Turns Out Postpartum Depression Is Really Not That Entertaining
ReviewJim SlotekDie My Love, Lynne Ramsay, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Sissy Spacek, Nick Nolte, LaKeith Stanfield, Drama, Themes of depression, Postpartum depression, Cannes
Stitch Head: A Franken-Toon about loving your inner monster
Nouvelle Vague: Linklater’s charming, if light, homage to Godard’s Breathless
ReviewJim SlotekHomages to classic filmmakers, Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, Jean-Luc Godard, Breathless, Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch as Jean Seberg, Aubry Dullin as Jean Paul Belmondo, Francois Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer
Sunfish: Closely Observed Characters Make for an Engaging Film
ReviewJim SlotekSunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake), Sierra Falconer, Maren Heary, Karsen Liotta, Jim Kaplan, Tenley Kellogg, Emily Hall, Coming of age stories, Drama, Summertime
