Craig S

Craig S

Favorite films

  • Citizen Kane
  • North by Northwest
  • Double Indemnity
  • The Wizard of Oz

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  • Mothers' Instinct

    ★★★

  • Anora

    ★★★½

  • Flow

    ★★★

  • The Girl with the Needle

    ★★★½

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  • Mothers' Instinct

    Mothers' Instinct

    ★★★

    Stylish thriller that serves as an acting challenge between Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain as the two Oscar winners face off in a Hitchcockian family drama set in the early 1960s. Despite its impressive acting and staging, it never really quite meets up to its potential, although it certainly is worth an evening watch as it streams on Hulu.

  • Anora

    Anora

    ★★★½

    There are a lot of things I admired about this film - mostly the performance of Mikey Madison. And the slapstick second half of the film reminded me of a slightly more erotic Coen Brothers offering. But I didn't get the ending at all.

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  • Gaia

    Gaia

    ★★★

    Creepy film about creeping roots and mushrooms and spores and other things in the forest that will make me want to continue my Covid in-house quarantine a little longer. South African horror film which I watched to wrap up Day One of the virtual SXSW festival. Well-done, but I have no idea what its last 20 minutes told me was the reason all the weird stuff was happening. Horror fans might give it an extra star.

  • Won't You Be My Neighbor?

    Won't You Be My Neighbor?

    ★★★★★

    So, so happy I was able to introduce Mr. Rogers to my older sons tonight as we journeyed to the one theater in Houston playing this movie to see it together. What a delightful, engrossing, entertaining message this film delivers to its audience and seeing it in a real theater with other appreciative fans (either those who grew up with Mr. Rogers or many like my sons who had never seen him) just enhanced the experience even more. I don't…