Lady Bird
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Lady Bird is a brilliant coming-of-age dramatic comedy for the modern age, with an amazing ensemble cast and a refreshing style that is built to last for generations.
Read MoreStand By Me
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Stand By Me is an instant classic, driven by powerful performances of the four child actors and a brilliant script that balances out the sadness in life with simple moments of compassion and humor.
Read MorePeter Rabbit
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Peter Rabbit is one of those films where someone needed to walk into Sony and whack the producers on the head with a carrot.
Read MoreThe Good Dinosaur
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Instead of the “meteorite that wasn’t,” Pixar would have been better leaving this as the “film that wasn’t.”
Read MoreThe Iron Giant
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The Iron Giant (1999) is a film that you appreciate more as you grow older…
Read MoreExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011) is about a family following the tragic aftermath of 9/11, but it’s a task that the film was simply not up to…
Read MoreLegend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
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Fans of the books will cringe at some of the bigger discrepancies—Kludd’s capture, the magical energy contained in “flecks”, Digger’s personality in general—while everyone else will wonder why all the events seem to take less than a week’s time. Ga’Hoole jumps from scene to scene with more energy than a caffeinated owl…
Read MoreKubo and the Two Strings
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Kubo embarks on a quest to find his father’s magical armor to defend himself against the Moon King. Along the way, Kubo receives aid from Monkey, who has come to life from a wooden snow monkey charm his mother gave him, and Beetle, a samurai soldier in the form of a beetle…
Read MoreSixteen Candles
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I get the impression from watching ’80s films that the decade is not from a different time period but a completely different dimension. Take Sixteen Candles: boys nonchalantly talking about date rape, photographing passed out women, locking geeks in trunks, blatant racism against Asians, and underage drinking and driving…
Read MoreMoonrise Kingdom
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Moonrise Kingdom depicts life through a child’s eyes: messy, convoluted, distracting, cruel and yet wistful, charming, sophisticated, spontaneous…
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