Movie Reviews(Page 2)

A Complete Unknown charts the rise of Bob Dylan from 1961-1965.  The film opens with Dylan as a nobody, hitchhiking to New York City to meet his idol, Woody Guthrie, who had recently been hospitalized.  We follow Dylan’s steps to success — and then stardom — up thr

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In the opening scene of Goodrich, Andy Goodrich (Michael Keaton) is woken up in the middle of the night to a call from his younger wife, Naomi.  She’s booking herself into rehab for 90 days to deal with the prescription drug problem that Andy was too self-absorbed to know she h

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Jim Henson Idea Man is a documentary directed by Ron Howard (Willow, Parenthood, Apollo 13, Frost/Nixon, Solo: A Star Wars Story), exploring the life and work of Jim Henson. This is a beautiful film that shines a well-deserved light on the genius Jim Henson.  It’s incredible to

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It’s hard to make a sequel in the best of circumstances, and when we’re talking about a “legacy” sequel made decades later, it’s especially challenging.  All sequels have to find a way to walk the line between recapturing what we loved about the original film and being diff

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I did not originally think I’d have any interest in a film about a bunch of old men in a room choosing the next Pope.  But Conclave, written by Peter Straughan (based on the novel by Robert Harris), directed by Edward Berger, and starring Ralph Fiennes, John Lithgow, Stanley Tu

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Wicked is, as you all probably know, the first of a two-part film adaptation of the broadway musical.  (The film was written by Winnie Holzman & Dana Fox and directed by John M. Chu.  It’s based on the musical Wicked, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by

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