Reeder's Review

A performance by the immensely talented Sir Daniel Day-Lewis is always an event. After eight years of retirement from acting, he has returned in a movie which ultimately frustrates more than it satisfies.

Dialogue. Empathy. Cooperation. Those concepts may seem foreign to the age-old conflict between conservationists and ranchers, but a thoughtful new documentary brings them entirely into focus.

The summer season has arrived, with a bevy of blockbusters on the way. Even if you can readily imagine the finish line, F1 will keep you well entertained…

“You don’t look like you’re printed out. You’re just a person.”In writer-director Bong Joon Ho’s new science fiction thriller, a film reveling in its…

In director James Mangold’s new film, Timothée Chalamet portrays the young Bob Dylan (the professional name he adopted at age 21) from 1961-1965. He gives a remarkably nuanced, accomplished performance in a movie that occasionally gets bogged down in truncated or unnecessary scenes, but not too often. The supporting cast shines as well.

A classic tale laced with horrific, religious, folkloric and erotic themes. Robert Eggers seemed destined to make a movie about it. Finally, after a decade of preparation, he has.

“Maria Callas was someone that as she was singing, she was dying every time. Life was taken from her while she sang.” The Chilean writer-director Pablo Larrain has a fascination with mortality. The manifestations of it course throughout his work. In many respects, it inspires his art.

It seems an unlikely combination: Walt Disney Pictures’ lucrative franchise The Lion King in the directorial hands of Barry Jenkins, the auteur of several praiseworthy indie productions, including the Academy Award-winning Best Picture Moonlight (2016). The result is technically accomplished, but emotionally frustrating.

-Deadpool addressing WolverineThe meta has overtaken the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). After a six-year period marked by a wealth of change–studio…

Biopics are notoriously fraught with difficulty. They have to achieve an emotional and intellectual resonance, as well as a period look and feel. The script has to reflect and enhance the inherent drama in the lives of its characters, and the main one really has to matter. In Oppenheimer, the British-American writer-director Christopher Nolan embraces the challenge of telling the story of the “most important person who ever lived,” as he puts it.