A few bridges too far
Joyce Glasser reviews 21 Bridges (November 22, 2019), Cert. 15, 99 min. Brian Kirk directed a touching TV biopic entitled My Boy Jack in 2007, but his more recent involvement with episodes of Game of ...
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Another topical and thought-provoking, if dark and demanding film from Jason Reitman
Joyce Glasser reviews The Front Runner (January 11, 2019), Cert. 15, 113 min. Two of the 20th century’s most popular US presidents, JFK and Bill Clinton, were known womanisers, and the incumbent US pr ...
Ben Affleck plays another superhero in this taxing thriller
Joyce Glasser reviews The Accountant (November 4, 2016) Director Gavin O’Connor’s (Jane Got a Gun, Warrior, Tumbleweeds) The Accountant, starring Ben Affleck, is really three, or maybe four, movies f ...
Hugh Grant stars in the school-based rom-com The Rewrite
Joyce Glasser reviews The Rewrite (October 8, 2014), Cert. 12A, 107 min. ‘School films’, or films about teachers and students, are not only a bonafide genre, but are so numerous and varied that subgen ...