Movie review by Greg Carlson WARNING: The following review reveals key information. Read only if you have seen “You Can See Everything” Thirty-four days before she reports to the minimum security federal detention facility in Bryan, Texas to serve time for wire fraud, we join Elizabeth Holmes as she opens her private life and personal […]

Movie review by Greg Carlson “Blue Jean” director Georgia Oakley imagines a satisfying adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic romance/social critique “Sense and Sensibility” in the first big screen attempt since the much loved 1995 Ang Lee edition starring Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet. Oakley’s take emphasizes the bonds of family and sisterhood as much or […]

Movie review by Greg Carlson WARNING: The following review reveals plot information. Read only if you have seen “Digger” In “Digger,” the perpetually engaging Alejandro G. Iñárritu looks high and low for the recall code to his visually resplendent doomsday device. Anchored by a tour de force comic workout from Tom Cruise, the ambitious film […]

Movie review by Greg Carlson Filmmaker Lance Oppenheim has drawn more attention in recent days for the upcoming Elizabeth Holmes/Theranos documentary “You Can See Everything” (which he co-directed with Nathan Fielder) than for “Primetime,” his fictionalized take on “To Catch a Predator” and host Chris Hansen. Already considered a success for making back its modest […]

Movie review by Greg Carlson I admit to having a soft spot for movies that eventually transform into swans of the cult-following variety after languishing as box office and/or critical ugly ducklings. Despite affection for witchy tales and the presence of two appealing future Oscar-winners in major roles (not to mention the incredible Dianne Wiest, […]

Movie review by Greg Carlson Shortly before the theatrical run of “Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World,” the gentle and moving feature documentary by Sasha Waters that honors the late poet in nearly all the best possible ways, a friend wrote to me: “I am probably not alone in saying that Mary […]

Movie review by Greg Carlson Third-year psychology student Emily (Angourie Rice), an American abroad at the fictional Manchester City University, alights on what she thinks will be the perfect case study to complete her psychology thesis project: musician/sound engineer Owen (Spike Fearn), chasing after another Emily he met briefly at the student union club where […]

Movie review by Greg Carlson An increasingly intimate relationship between a filmmaker and a reclusive horror actor commands our attention in “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,” director Jane Schoenbrun’s highly anticipated follow-up to the much lauded “I Saw the TV Glow.” Schoenbrun’s latest, described by the artist in an interview with JP Mangalindan […]

Movie review by Greg Carlson David Robert Mitchell’s energizing dino-danger adventure “The End of Oak Street” descends upon us like a late-summer gift from the Hollywood heavens. If possible, go see it knowing nothing ahead of time and then come back to read the rest of this review. Mitchell’s fourth film as writer-director continues the […]

Movie review by Greg Carlson Discussing the parameters, ramifications, and impossibilities of the absolutely outlandish premise of Will Gluck’s latest movie is nearly equal to the fun of gawping at the heavenly bodies of stars Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro as they work their way toward an inevitable rom-com resolution in “One Night Only.” Several […]