Reviews

The story in The Way of Water is not new it revolves around a powerful enemy attempting to remove valuable elements from Pandora through a process that will disturb the intimate relationship all living entities have with each other on the planet.  The script is almost not important as we see the most beautiful perfect […]

Away from Her director Sarah Polley locates an empowering resonance in an adaptation of Miriam Toews’ 2018 novel.   Women Talking is a volume to be less than dramatically dynamic, but that may be the case for what can be moving and sincere from a distaff faith-based octet.  One that is motivated by lies, male […]

An overused idea limits the script and detracts from the beauty and creative designs of the mysterious land and unique characters the cast explores. The main premise is the standard story of a father expecting his son to follow in his footsteps and the kid looking at different horizons.  Getting past the limited story the […]

Set over the 50s and 60s this rather poignant, nuanced, if uneven portrait of the making of a ‘boy wonder’ from Steven Spielberg, may not rise to the level of last year’s Belfast but still has plenty of relatable ballast from those formative years.   In The Fabelmans the main trio of son Sammy (Gabriel […]

A resonant, dark comedy from Martin McDonagh has the Irish playwright in top form with In Bruges hitmen Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell during the backdrop of a 1923 Civil War. A metaphorical Banshees of Inisherin looks into the ramifications of fractured human interaction in an evocatively challenging way.  The naivety and steely collide through […]