Monster
Dir. Tomás Ó Súilleabháin
Irish period drama Monster is downright depressing. Of course, for some viewers, that’s just part and parcel of any period…
Howards End
Is a TV adaptation necessary when we already have a novel and film version of Howards End? Probably not, but…
Fargo
Taking the violence and offbeat comedy of the original movie and adding constantly expanding narratives on top of it, Noah…
Monster
Dir. Patty Jenkins
Monster is a biographical depiction of Aileen Wuornos (Charlize Theron), a prostitute and serial killer who murdered seven men in…
La Vie en Rose
Dir. Olivier Dahan
La Vie en Rose isn’t exactly a rosier biopic compared to others. After all, this is about Edith Piaf, one…
Dead Man Walking
Dir. Tim Robbins
A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled…
Still Alice
Dir. Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland
Still Alice is a drama about a renowned linguistics professor (Julianne Moore) who slowly begins to lose words and find…
Monster’s Ball
Dir. Marc Forster
A prison guard begins a tentative romance with the unsuspecting widow of a man whose execution he presided over.
Still Alice
Dir. Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she…
Poor Things
Dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure…
The Favourite
Dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
England, early 18th century. The close relationship between Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill is threatened by the arrival of Sarah’s…
Blue Jasmine
Dir. Woody Allen
After experiencing a traumatic misfortune, Jasmine French, a wealthy woman from New York, moves to San Francisco to live with…
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Dir. Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what’s important to her…
Driving Miss Daisy
Dir. Bruce Beresford
The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke. From an…
Walk the Line
Dir. James Mangold
A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash’s life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his…
Million Dollar Baby
Dir. Clint Eastwood
Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn’t prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his…
Erin Brockovich
Dir. Steven Soderbergh
A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins — with a little…
Black Swan
Dir. Darren Aronofsky
The story of Nina, a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her…
The Reader
Dir. Stephen Daldry
The Reader is a German-American drama from 2008, based on the best-selling novel by author Bernhard Schlink. The storyline begins…
Moonstruck
Dir. Norman Jewison
It’s easy enough to pitch Moonstruck with the promise of Cher and a young Nicolas Cage getting hot and heavy…
La La Land
Dir. Damien Chazelle
Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing…