Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Current events add a layer of provocative subtext to Sicario: Day of the Soldado, which features the kidnapping of a child for leverage in a high-stakes…
Month: June 2018
Uncle Drew
Kind of like the state of the NBA these days in a nutshell, Uncle Drew…
Capsule reviews for June 29
Dark River Richly textured characters and evocative rural landscapes elevate this melancholy drama from British…
The New Colossus
In the April 17, 2017, issue of The New Yorker, legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin wrote an editorial about the influence of Leonard Leo, the executive vice-president of the Federalist Society. Leo’s work serves as a pipeline for conservative law graduates aspiring to the bench—e.g. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. Today…
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Mother Nature might have caused dinosaurs to go extinct, but millions of years later, the…
The Catcher Was a Spy
The name Moe Berg might not ring a bell with either baseball historians or World…
Capsule reviews for June 22
Boundaries Except for a few brief detours, this road-trip comedy follows a familiar path toward…
Incredibles 2
Having returned as Bob and Helen Parr–a.k.a. Mr. and Mrs. Incredible (Craig T. Nelson and Holly Hunter), and Lucius Best/Frozone (Samuel L. Jackson), these suburbanite super heroes…