Paris, 13th District

Love and sex in this Paris-set adaptation of Adrian Tomine’s comics

"...ex-lovers who can’t quite get out of each other’s orbit. It just depends when you see their very average..."

April 22, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Moonfall

Disaster flick + Dyson sphere = Roland Emmerich’s latest

"...when scientists discover the moon is falling out of orbit. With the help of conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman (Bradley)..."

Feb. 11, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Swan Song

Meandering story of nearing death flies on Udo Kier’s wings

"...the anchor, and everyone around him is just in orbit (Jennifer Coolidge as rival beautician Dee Dee Dale is..."

Aug. 13, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Pig

Nicolas Cage’s porcine drama is a transformative soliloquy about love and loss

"...Cage, and so keeps Amir swept up in his orbit (in some ways reminiscent of Joaquin Phoenix in 8mm,..."

July 16, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Sparks Brothers

Edgar Wright reveals the wonderful, mysterious Mael brothers

"...for decades, in the same kind of constant remote orbit as Tom Waits: Never big enough to get trapped..."

June 18, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

"Kevin Greer: As the World Stood Still" at Davis Gallery

One man's mark-making movements set this show on fire

"...Lost Cat Magnet and Joshua Thomson, whose recent Low Orbit album was, we're told, on repeat while the painter..."

Jan. 29, 2021 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Space Dogs

Disturbing history of animals in space is rightly upsetting

"...Given that I’ve been orbiting all manner of streaming platforms more than I normally..."

Sept. 18, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

Herzog on Chatwin becomes Herzog exposed

"...conventional (ha! as if the word exists in his orbit) Herzog documentary, narrated in such a way as to..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Linklater's Lunar Latest Coming to Netflix

Apollo 10 1/2 to be animated by Austin's Minnow Mountain

"...flights of 1969 as its background (the low Earth orbit Apollo 9 in May, the Moon orbit of Apollo..."

July 16, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Charlie Says

Manson Family drama place society's treatment of guilt and contrition in the dock

"...at the center, rather than as bodies in decaying orbit of Manson's black hole...."

Aug. 16, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Dark Phoenix

The X-Men finally leave the silver screen with a story they already told

"...the cosmos – after the team heads in to orbit to rescue a doomed space shuttle crew. When she..."

June 7, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Photograph

Indian romance is best in its quiet moments

"...are the words that draw Miloni (Malhotra) into Rafi’s orbit, and he seals the deal when he offers to..."

May 24, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ash Is Purest White

The emotional cost of a life of crime across two decades in Northern China

"...fully embraced the jianghu life, and Bin re-enters her orbit once more...."

March 22, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

First Man

Gosling and Chazelle's moon man biopic soars

"...instead explore why he could risk burning up in orbit while he could barely communicate with the ever more..."

Oct. 12, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Skyscraper

The Rock's take on The Towering Inferno is a damp squib

"...in Skyscraper, but each of the actors in his orbit work overtime to squeeze every last drop of value..."

July 13, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Nancy

Andrea Riseborough spellbinds in this drama of self-delusion and second chances.

"...by Jeb (Leguizamo), who managed to fall into her orbit online, and the audience’s trust in her is quickly..."

June 29, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Lean on Pete

Equine tale is a lot deeper than the cheesy subject suggests.

"...be possible. This kid’s alone and loneliness fills his orbit...."

April 20, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Midwife

Two screen legends deliver in a mildly sappy drama

"...this pair of strikingly different women into each other’s orbit, and while the resulting clash of personalities is très..."

Sept. 15, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Maps to the Stars

David Cronenberg's film, with a script by Bruce Wagner, is a darkly humorous moral fable aimed at Hollywood.

"...(or you could blame the meds). Also circling Agatha’s orbit are her estranged parents, Stafford (Cusack), a domineering celebrity..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Listen Up Philip

The director of The Color Wheel is back with this film about a narcissistic and abrasive young novelist.

"...gravitational pull that brings people within its young malcontent’s orbit in the first place, except when Schwartzman – an..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

More proves to be less for Spidey this time out.

"...more original comes along and knocks it out of orbit...."

May 2, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Veronica Mars

Although this isn't a reinvention of the wheel, the beloved TV show gets a spirited spin in this feature.

"...She’s also pulled back into Neptune’s orbit, which allows Thomas and co-writer Diane Ruggiero to revive..."

March 14, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

NASA Wants You to Help Save the World

Space returns as the final frontier of Interactive programming

"...space economy," and a live Q&A with astronauts in orbit, coordinated by NASA social media manager John Yembrick...."

Feb. 28, 2014 Screens Feature by Michael Agresta

August: Osage County

Plates are broken and egos are trampled on in this wonderful ensemble rendition of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play.

"...(Roberts), who has managed to physically escape her mother’s orbit by moving away to Colorado, yet is probably the..."

Jan. 10, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

DVD Watch: Combat Girls

The dark shadow of a post-Hitler youth, plus new releases

"...on its shores and ends up in Marissa's deadly orbit. But, in an unexpected approach, writer/director David Wendt is..."

July 10, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Kon-Tiki

Real-life adventurer Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 trip across the Pacific on a raft is re-created in this beautifully lensed film.

"...Like Lindbergh’s trans-Atlantic solo flight or John Glenn’s maiden orbit in space, Heyerdahl’s maritime journey captured the public’s insatiable..."

May 31, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Arbitrage

Richard Gere stars in this thriller as a duplicitous hedge-fund manager who, nevertheless, has all the right moves.

"...able to capture its dramatic ramifications. Jarecki handles this orbit with aplomb, although a few narrative gaps (a belly..."

Sept. 14, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Woodgrain

New Wax

"...WoodgrainWar Orbit..."

May 25, 2012 Music Review by Luke Winkie

Experimental/Experiential

Film at Fusebox Festival

"...a screening on April 30 of the omnibus project Orbit!: Films About Our Solar System. A collaboration between Cinemad..."

April 27, 2012 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The FP

This potential cult-movie masterpiece is likely the most original dance film you'll see this year.

"...central joke, around which hundreds of other smaller gags orbit like space junk around the Earth, is that these..."

March 16, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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