Decision to Leave (2022)
Superb ‘Decision’ has a Hitch in its get-along Comparing Park Chan-wook to Alfred Hitchcock is much the same as contrasting Oasis with The Beatles. It’s imitation, but if the results are pleasurable, if not rewarding, who’s to complain? So it is with Park’s sumptuously adorned “Decision to Leave,” a neo-noir love story so dizzying you’d […]
Sidney (2022)
‘Sidney’ chronicles a life well-lived Produced by Oprah Winfrey, Reginald Hudlin’s comprehensive biography of the late Sidney Poitier is a rousing experience that’s an endless source of inspiration. Accentuated by insightful commentary from Poitier himself – along with the likes of Oscar-winners Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Spike Lee and Morgan Freeman – Hudlin highlights the […]
The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022)
‘Beer’ goes flat quickly Director Peter Farrelly follows up his Oscar-winning “Green Book” with another variation on the road-trip scenario long favored by the native Rhode Islander. But this is no “Dumb and Dumber” or “Kingpin,” although it features the latter’s Bill Murray as a grizzled bartender. No, this is serious. Or, is it? Farrelly […]