Dan Gilroy in 2014 burst into the scene with his directorial debut feature, “Nightcrawler,” making a big impression with the dark satire about local news and tabloid culture. Now the filmmaker returns with “Roman J. Israel, Esq.,” another slippery morality tale built around a protagonist with questionable social skills. Part legal drama, part character study, […]
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Film review: ‘It Comes at Night’
In his debut film, “Krisha,” writer-director Trey Edward Shults took a drama about a fraught Thanksgiving family reunion and ratcheted up the intensity until it entered the realm of psychological horror. Now in his sophomore outing, the young filmmaker goes for full-on terror with the nightmarish, post-apocalyptic thriller “It Comes at Night.” As you might […]
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Film Review: “Selma”
The time is right for a film like “Selma.” Though director Ava DuVernay’s focus is the riveting behind-the-scenes story of a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement — documenting Martin Luther King Jr.’s campaign to get the Voting Rights Act passed by staging marches from Selma, Alabama, to the state capitol in Montgomery — […]
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Film Review: “The Purge: Anarchy”
In a time when some politicians now kick off their campaigns in gun shops, armed yokels wave the Confederate flag outside the White House, a candidate in the South hosts target practice with President Obama’s face for a bull’s eye, a movie like “The Purge: Anarchy” must seem a gift from God to members of […]
