Tiny Budgets, Big Ideas: Two Micro-Features Dive Into The Anxious Vortex Of The Times
ReviewJim SlotekIndependent films, Small features, January opening, Delicate State, Charlie Bodin, Paula Rhodes, Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes, Junta Yamaguchi, Japanese movies, Time travel movies, Films abour pregnancy, Films about pregnancy, Makoto Ueda
Original-Cin Year In Review: 2021’s Best and Worst Movies
By Original-Cin Staff
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Review, Preview, ViewsJim SlotekPig, Nicolas Cage, The Card Counter, Oscar Isaac, Above Suspicion, Emelia Clarke, I'm Your Man, TIFF 2021, Hot Docs 2021., Nope, Jordan Peele, The Lost Daughter, Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Flee, The Power of the Dog, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jesse Plemons, Jane Campion, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield, Avatar 2, Dune, Denis Villeneuve, Halloween Kills, Agnes, The Black Phone, Licorice Pizza, Paul Thomas Anderson, The Worst Person in the World, Joachim Trier, Maria Chapdelaine, The Northman, Robert Eggers, Encanto, The Sparks Brothers, Edgar Wright, Olivia Wilde, Judas and the Black Messiah, Drive My Car, Black Conflux, Killers of the Flower Moon, Belfast, The Tragedy of Macbeth, tick tick BOOM!, Coda, Paul Schrader, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Frances McDormand, Denzel Washington
The Lost Daughter: Olivia Colman Excels in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Examination of Motherhood and Memory
By Linda Barnard
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ReviewJim SlotekThe Lost Daughter, adaptation, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Dakota Johnson, Dagmara Dominczyk, Peter Sarsgaard, Ed Harris, Elena Ferrante, Drama, Motherhood
The Tragedy of Macbeth: Joel Coen and Denzel Deliver a Powerful 'Scottish Play' for the Present Day
By Karen Gordon
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Licorice Pizza: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Valentine to 70s-Era California is Exhilarating
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekLicorice Pizza, Paul Thomas Anderson, Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Bradley Cooper, 1970s, California, Haim, Gary Goetzman
The Matrix Resurrections: In A Word, Ridiculous. But Yeah, the Effects are Kinda Cool
Margrete: Queen of the North - Denmark's Historical Monarch is One Tough Mother
The King’s Man: Kingsman Franchise Origin Story Not Much More Than Mildly Engaging
ReviewJim SlotekFranchise, Drama, Actioner, The King’s Man, Matthew Vaughn, Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, Djimon Hounsou, Charles Dance, Rhys Ifans, Matthew Goode, Tom Hollander, Harris Dickinson
The Scary of Sixty-First: A Jeffrey Epstein Horror Film? Ho-hum
Red Rocket: Darkly Comedic Character Study of a Charismatic Grifter Living Life on the Bottom
By Karen Gordon
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The Tender Bar: George Clooney Coming-of-Age Drama the Embodiment of Meh
ReviewJim SlotekThe Tender Bar, George Clooney, Ben Affleck, Christopher Lloyd, Max Martini, adaptation, Memoir adaptation, Coming of age, Tye Sheridan, Lily Rabe, J. R. Moehringer
Flee: Animated Documentary Puts a Human Face on the Faraway Plight of Refugees
By Karen Gordon
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Nightmare Alley: Guillermo del Toro Noir Epic Lovely to Look At, Dreary to Behold
ReviewJim SlotekNightmare Alley, Guillermo del Toro, Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Richard Jenkins, Toni Collette, Rooney Mara, Thriller, Noir, Remake
Spider-Man: No Way Home - A noisy celebration of two decades of Spidey culled from the multiverse
Being the Ricardos: Aaron Sorkin’s Snappy I Love Lucy Biopic Soars on Novel Approach
ReviewJim SlotekBiopic, Drama, I Love Lucy, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Being the Ricardos, Aaron Sorkin, Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem, J.K. Simmons, Nina Arianda
Don’t Look Up: A Constellation of Stars at the Presser, and the Elephant in the Zoom
This Game’s Called Murder: Ridiculous Thriller Packed With Ideas, Few of them Good
Agnes: Mickey Reece's Sardonic Demon-Possessed Nun Tale Recalls Ken Russell's The Devils
Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road: Pop Music’s Troubled Genius in the Passenger Seat
ReviewJim SlotekBrian Wilson: Long Promised Road, Rock documentaries, Malibu’s Paradise Cove, Surfin' Safari, Murry Wilson, Eugene Landy, Brent Wilson, Jason Fine, Don Was, I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
West Side Story: Spielberg's First Musical Has Moves, Energy and Heightened Storytelling
ReviewJim SlotekWest Side Story, Steven Spielberg, 1957 Broadway hit, Rachel Zegler, Ansel Elgort, Movie musicals return, Justin Peck, Jerome Robbins, Stephen Sondheim, Ariana DeBose, Rita Moreno
