Flicks with The Film Snob

Two older women live in a beautiful mansion in Paraguay–but they are facing financial ruin. When one of them goes to prison to serve a short sentence for fraud, the other begins to explore possibili…

Chris Dashiell names his favorite films that were released last year.

There were some miraculous films in 2018. I’ve learned to be grateful, and not to take these things for granted.

Roma (Alfonso Cu…

The tension between communist Poland and the West in the 1950s is reflected in the tortured love affair of a singer and the musician who discovers her.

Relationships are hard. Most people know that. …

The Coen brothers’ latest film is a story anthology presenting the dark themes behind that most American of film genres, the western.

The Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, have covered a lot of genres i…

Barry Jenkins adapts a James Baldwin novel about a black couple who won’t let anything, including an unjust arrest, keep them apart.

When we last saw writer-director Barry Jenkins, his film Moonlig…

The story of two women fighting for influence at the 18th century British court of Queen Anne satirizes the grotesque and demeaning nature of raw power.

The Favourite is what they call a costume pic…

Julian Schnabel’s portrait of Vincent Van Gogh, beautifully portrayed by Willem Dafoe, focuses on the subjectivity of a painter for whom art was the only reason for living.

By my count there have bee…

A romantic comedy from classic Hollywood about a little store in Budapest and the people who work there, exemplifies what was known as “the Lubitsch touch.”

There are some old movies that I will watc…

The story of a servant for a well-off Mexican family in the 1970s, told through a unique style that lends an epic quality to the main character’s everyday life.

I just saw a masterpiece.

I don’t get …

Tells the story of astronaut Neil Armstrong by emphasizing the grief at losing his little daughter, and his subsequent shutting down of emotions and immersion in his work.

First Man, directed by Dam…

A mysterious triangle evokes the mystery of human emotions under stress, in South Korean director Lee Chang-dong’s new film.

Passion contained, rage suppressed, the cruelty and disappointments of lif…

John Cassavetes’ acclaimed film from 1974 features Gena Rowlands in the title role as a woman who can’t fit into the narrow role of a wife that is expected of her.

A Woman Under the Influence, relea…

Melissa McCarthy gets to stretch beyond her comedy roles in this portrait of the writer Lee Israel, who got herself out of debt by forging letters supposedly written by famous dead authors and celeb…

Mario Monicelli’s 1963 comedy/drama about a strike by factory workers in 19th century Turin is not as well known as it should be.

The other day I stumbled on a hidden gem, as I sometimes do in my re…

In his first English language film, Jacques Audiard gives us an interesting and off-beat take on the outlaw Western genre.

When I first saw the preview for a new Western film called The Sisters Broth…