Sing Sing was a meditative drama that focused on the lives of a small group of prisoners incarcerated in Sing Sing Correctional Facility. Colman Domingo truly shines as Divine G, a man incarcerated for a crime he didn't commit, who discovers a sense of purpose through a prison theater program. Domingo leads a stellar ensemble comprised of him Sean San Jose, and a troop of formerly incarcerated actors from Sing Sing prison. Clarence Maclin, one of the formerly incarcerated actors…

Conclave was truly Ralph Fiennes at his finest. It was dripping with drama throughout. The world's Cardinals are tasked with electing a new pope and Fiennes's character is in charge of running the election. Multiple scandals ensue while the Cardinals are sequestered in a compound. Stanley Tucci plays as the most liberal candidate in the field and Fiennes's character and others try to rally support around him. As the breadth of candidates narrows, the drama reaches its peak and it…

I was able to catch Poor Things in theaters yesterday. I would describe Poor Things as Emma Stone having sex 80 percent of the time and Mark Ruffalo getting annoyed with Emma Stone 20 percent of the time. Poor things is an overstuffed, overblown, monstrosity of a film that upends your expectations at the start of the film, only to toil and wander needlessly toward an ending that can only be described as unearned and trite. Poor Things like its…

The Holdovers was easily my favorite film of 2023 and it still hits hard in 2024. I first saw the film in theaters and was struck by its self-aware bend as a 70s look-a-like film, while simultaneously leaning into those same 70s and 80s movie tropes. Paul Giamatti is in true form as a curmudgeonly aging classics instructor, Paul Hunham, at an all-boys New England boarding school. He teaches at Barton Academy, a school where there are "Barton men" much…