Category: FILM REVIEWS
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A remarkable and disturbing mother/daughter saga, based on true events
Joyce Glasser reviews An Impossible Love (Un amour impossible) (January 4, 2019), Cert. 15, 135 min. The title, An Impossible Love, and the continuous first-person narration are the only elements of Catherine […]
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Everything is possible, even a very good, if not great, sequel to Mary Poppins
Joyce Glasser reviews Mary Poppins Returns (December 21, 2018), Cert. U, 130 min. Do we really need a remake – or a sequel – to Mary Poppins, director Robert Stevenson’s 1964 with […]
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A strong sense of destiny translates into insufferable contrivance in Dan Fogelman’s ambitious film
Joyce Glasser reviews Life Itself (January 4, 2019), Cert. 15, 117 min. After making his successful directorial debut with the Al Pacino vehicle Danny Collins, scriptwriter Dan Fogelman (Last Vegas, The Guilt […]
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A remake of this star-studded 1973 true prison survival saga is conventional but surprisingly effective
Joyce Glasser reviews Papillon (December 21, 2018), Cert. 15, 127 min. When Papillon, an alleged autobiographical memoir by Henri Charrière was published in French (1969) and English (1970) it was a […]