The Quiet Movie The Quiet Girl ★★★1/2 (out of four stars) In the decade since the publication of Susan Cain’s “Quiet,”…
Browsing: Two Film Critics
What if death were noise? Bored or stressed. That’s one way to understand the dichotomy at the core of Oscar-nominated…
What Calum and Sophie Did on Their Summer Vacation Calum, about to turn 31 and separated from (and maybe never…
The man in the pin-striped suit Older man learns he’s dying, meets much younger woman, determines to change his life.…
When nice is not enough “It takes a village.” But it’s not the kind of village Hillary Clinton had in…
Through an eyeball darkly Follow the cellphones! That’s good advice if you want to fully understand award-winning Korean director Park…
Conducting a Life Seemingly endless credits roll before the film even begins. What follows is equally pretentious: a too-long on-stage…
“The Karate Kid” Meets “Good Will Hunting” Callow, nerdy math student at prestigious high school meets irascible, slovenly night watchman…
Airbnb from Hell The perpetrators in horror films are usually inexplicably horrible, like any guy wielding a chainsaw, or the…
A Portrait of the Artist as a (Selfish) Young Man The trajectory for Robert, a disaffected, driven, and often unlikeable…