Everybody's Got One: The Home of Tim Grierson

The Assistant opens today but played in Sundance's Spotlight section, which is where I saw it. This drama is about, as you might hav...

My pick: 49ers by three on Sunday. Bonus points for anyone who knows why I'm including this song with that prediction.

What do these two movies have in common? They're both about dads with dementia. This inspired some thoughts about losing my mom and...

I hope American Factory wins the Oscar for Best Documentary. I had the great pleasure of interviewing directors Steven Bognar and Julia ...

John Kricfalusi was the mastermind behind The Ren & Stimpy Show . A new documentary, Happy Happy Joy Joy , wants to celebrate the car...

Ethan Hawke reunites with his Hamlet director Michael Almereyda for this far-from-straightforward biopic about Nikola Tesla. I really en...

So, I really loved The Father . My review is up at Screen International .

Every year at Sundance, a few films make a splash and land big-money distribution deals. Uncle Frank , about a closeted gay man (Paul Bet...

Martha Marcy May Marlene was one of the best films of 2011 . Now, filmmaker Sean Durkin is back with a drama that feels like a horror m...

What might sound like an I'm Not There -style biopic of Gloria Steinem turns out to be its own thing. Four different actresses play S...

In recent years, Will Ferrell's onscreen persona has shifted slightly. With Daddy's Home and Downhill , he's been playing in...

This is the second straight Sundance featuring hard-hitting #MeToo documentaries. For MEL , I wrote about On the Record and why I'm ...

Radha Blank writes, directs and stars in this semi-autobiographical comedy-drama about a struggling playwright who reinvents herself as a...

It's been eight years since Benh Zeitlin took Sundance by storm with Beasts of the Southern Wild . He returns with Wendy , which rewr...

Miranda July hasn't made a movie in nine years. She returns with a strange con-artist comedy-drama that, once you get on its waveleng...

The best thing so far as this year's Sundance? That's Eliza Hittman's abortion drama Never Rarely Sometimes Always. My review...

Benedict Cumberbatch has to save the world from nuclear devastation in Ironbark , the remarkable true story about a British salesman who ...

Going into this year's Sundance, Zola was one of the most highly-anticipated films. Adapted from a 2015 tweet storm about one woman...

Finishing up this month's look at everything Star Trek for SyFy, we ranked the best films in the series. J.J. Abrams does not put in...

I was mixed on Carlos Lopez Estrada's first film, Blindspotting . But I quite enjoyed Summertime , which looks at more than two-dozen...