Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love

Biography of Leonard Cohen's muse can't stop focusing on the artist

"...opportunity to explore the experience via the muse’s own truth. Broomfield touches on this but never examines it deeply,..."

July 19, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wild Rose

Jessie Buckley roars in this outlaw country tale (only the country is Scotland)

"...a trip to Nashville opens her eyes about the truth of her ambitions – and yes, she finally sings..."

July 12, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Spider-Man: Far From Home

Everyone's favorite web-slinger returns for a new era of Marvel

"...old consigliere "Happy" Hogan (Favreau), and it's the literal truth. There's a sensation that the world is missing the..."

July 5, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

All Is True

"Who is it that can tell me who I am?" Not this Shakespeare biopic.

"...modern. Did Shakespeare really become obsessed with learning the truth about the untimely death of his young son Hamnet..."

May 31, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Author Casey McQuiston Loves Love

The debut writer dreams of queer romance and a bluer Texas

"...it came from for me and this is my truth.” And it was also terrifying! Because this is my..."

May 21, 2019 Arts Post by Rosalind Faires

Raising Hell With the Legacy of Molly Ivins at SXSW

Texas’ beloved crusading journalist gets her documentary due

"...enthusiastically anti-authoritarian writer in her infamous Texan twang. Speaking truth to power with a heaping helping of piercing wit..."

March 12, 2019 SXSW Post by Marc Savlov

Everybody Knows

Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem charm in this slight tale of lost loves and kidnapping

"...the surface. And what everybody knows isn’t always the truth...."

Feb. 22, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Donnybrook

Backwoods crime drama with a social conscience is gruelingly bleak

"...like it, and be too gallingly close to the truth for those who've walked near to this terrible fire...."

Feb. 15, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Lords of Chaos

The true crime story that made black metal truly sinister

"...stretched through assaults, suicide, ghoulish rumors based in hideous truth, and the firebombing of several historic Norwegian churches...."

Feb. 8, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Capernaum

Lebanese drama of the destitute is tough to watch, but tougher to live

"...of narrative. Yet Capernaum is as close to unfiltered truth as the screen or the audience can handle. Set..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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