Ethan Hawke

While Robert Eggers’ film may prove too graphic, intense, or perhaps lengthy for some viewers, "The Northman" is still one of the best films of the year.

The film 'The Guilty,' starring Jake Gyllenhaal, is a tedious exercise in overwrought mood lighting and forced emotional response through facial expressions.

While the resting image from the new film Tesla may not have been intended to be the sight of Ethan Hawke as the titular iconic inventor singing—on what appears to be an open mic stage setting (and in character)—the Tears for Fears song “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” it is, in fact, rather difficult to wrest that performance out of one’s psyche when ultimately evaluating the entirety of the ...[Read More]

Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche star as an estranged mother and daughter in Hirokazu Kore-eda’a film, The Truth (Le vérité), an exquisite representation of repressed familial frustrations and emotional repression that tells an energetic tale of pseudo redemption between two women. Writer/director Kore-eda’s latest film is a poignant portrayal of one family’s dynamics. Matriarch Fabienne (pl...[Read More]

What Richard Linklater’s Boyhood accomplishes is due the highest praise; as a feat of extended cinematic biography, there have been few experiments as rounded, detailed, and character-developed as this twelve-year gamble. Nailing my heart to the wall with a good growing-up tale is a favorite cinematic past-time going back to a lot of young, smart French faces in the 1950s and 1960s; Russian kids w...[Read More]

The Purge is definitely one film you will want to purge from your memory. This story features a seemingly interesting concept that is so poorly executed that it becomes the epitome of predictable. The premise being that in the year 2022, the new America is a much better and safer place because the government has instilled the Purge – a once-a-year twelve-hour event during which anyone can kill, ra...[Read More]