After a promising spring, moviegoers endured the lousiest summer movie season in memory. The "big dumb fun" movies didn't deliver but several great, challenging fall dramas and a few sleepers from earlier salvaged the movie year. The great runner-ups that got pushed outside of my Top Ten are A Monster Calls (opening next month), Kubo and the Two Strings, Snowden, The … [Read more...] about Best of the Wurst: The Top 10 films of 2016
Snowden
SNOWDEN New Movie Review
It's great to see Oliver Stone with a fire in his belly again. His previous film, Savages, a violent crime drama about California pot dealers, played like a laugh-free Pineapple Express and is easily Stone's weakest. On the other hand, Snowden is a return to form, as it downplays Stone's tendency for excess and provides a solid, complex portrayal of its polarizing central … [Read more...] about SNOWDEN New Movie Review