Share: Movies Movie Review: “Beirut” a Plausible, Old-School Mideast Thriller April 11, 2018 John Thomason Jon Hamm established his career playing Don Draper, a master of persuasion with a penchant for a stiff drink. It’s hard to imagine that another...
Share: Movies Movie Review: “Ready Player One” March 28, 2018 John Thomason “Ready Player One” is the geekiest movie ever made. This conclusion should be a compliment, coming from a critic who has identified as a geek...
Share: Movies Swede Fest Brings “Bad Movies By Good People” to Palm Beach March 21, 2018 John Thomason There are low-budget movies, and then there are, as Elizabeth Dashiell puts it, “no-budget movies.” The sort where, if you’re shooting a...
Share: Movies Movie Review: “1945” is Visually Lush, Morally Sound February 16, 2018 John Thomason From its opening seconds, “1945” is the sort of film that sets art-house hearts aflutter. It’s in a foreign language (Hungarian, mostly), it’s...
Share: Movies Movie Review: The Familial Train Wreck of “Happy End” January 18, 2018 John Thomason “Happy End” opens and closes with cell-phone footage, the widescreen frame scrunched accordionlike into that ubiquitous, shaky, voyeuristic...
Share: Movies Movie Review: “I, Tonya” Rebrands Controversial Skater January 3, 2018 John Thomason The problem with so many biopics is that life usually doesn’t proceed with the convenient clarity of a movie script, with its causes and effects,...
Share: Movies The Top 10 Films of 2017 December 20, 2017 John Thomason The annual top 10 list always requires a deft balancing act: In addition to the consensus choices that tend to appear on everybody’s list, am I...
Share: Movies Movie Review: “Wonder Wheel” is Woody Allen’s Sexist Nadir December 15, 2017 John Thomason Woody Allen’s latest movie opens on a cluttered beach on Coney Island in the 1950s, a canvas so teeming with people we almost expect to see Waldo...
Share: Movies Movie Review: “The Man Who Invented Christmas” Slights its Subject November 22, 2017 John Thomason South Florida author Les Standiford’s lively and revelatory book The Man Who Invented Christmas, about Charles Dickens’ writing and self-funded...
Share: Movies Movie Review: “Murder on the Orient Express” goes through the (loco)motions November 8, 2017 John Thomason What is the point of the new version of “Murder on the Orient Express?” Cemented as a diamond-flawless example of the mystery genre, Agatha...
