Alex Garland’s ‘Civil War’ shows us a violent, fractured America — but despite the verisimilitude, needs more specifics
By Cliff Froehlich
Filmmaker Alex Garland says that he wants to prompt conversation, and by not making explicit what either side of the conflict represents, he perhaps allows for at least a tentative reach across the yawning divide
Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, Alex Garland, Kirsten Dunst, Nick Offerman
Ethan Coen teams up with wife Tricia Cooke for road trip comedy ‘Drive-Away Dolls’
This sapphic jam puts lesbians in the driver’s seat
Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, LGBTQ+, Car Culture, Coen Brothers, Ethan Coen, Tricia Cooke, Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Video
‘All of Us Strangers’ is a ghost story with a bad ending
But the actors are all extraordinary
Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers, movie reviews, Cliff Froehlich, Video
In ‘The Holdovers,’ Alexander Payne and Paul Giamatti triumph again
Set in 1970, the film consciously emulates the best of that decade's cinema
Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, The Holdovers, Alexander Payne, Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa, Video
With ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ Martin Scorsese finally makes a Western — and it’s triumphant
Oklahoma, OK
Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese, David Grann
