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Commentary Flashback 12 January 2012 Among the actors we lost in 2011 were two of Tom Jones’s women, Superman’s editor, Batman’s butler, Sherlock’s Watson, the Squire of Gothos and the hillbilly who made Ned Beatty squeal like a pig

Review Flashback 1985 Susan Seidelman’s Desperately Seeking Susan

Review Flashback 1996 Isabel Coixet’s Things I Never Told You

Feature Film Review After the Pope’s death, it falls to Thomas Lawrence, as Dean of the College of Cardinals, to oversee the Conclave that will elect the papal successor

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Feature Film Review Drug cartel boss Juan ‘Manitas’ Del Monte enlists the aid of attorney Rita Mora Castro in his plan to become a woman called Emilia Pérez

Feature Film Review Because of the Russian she learned from her grandmother, Anora ‘Ani’ Mikheeva is introduced by her boss at an upscale New York strip club to Ivan ‘Vanya’ Zakharov, a wealthy oligarch’s son

Latest Commentary Also for the record, what she said about Ben Affleck in bed was uncalled for—and that dig at Joker 2 was pretty mean too

My Personal Ranking of
Films Released in the Year 2024
(that I have seen and reviewed so far)

Feature Film Review Hitman Donovan Harlow’s act of mercy toward witness Ashe Winters has consequences that put their and others’ survival In the Hands of Fate

Feature Film Review When Joan and her friends Linda and Susan sip Joan’s late inventor husband Arthur’s Whisky, they find themselves miraculously transported back to their youth

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The Fortnight Extended: the 2024 selection on international tour!

Feature Film Review In exchange for withholding a slanderous article, Spy magazine is allowed to send journalists Mike Connor and Liz Embrie to cover the High Society wedding of Tracy Lord and George Kittredge in Newport, Rhode Island

Feature Film Review Multiple meetings at random funerals lead to Harold and Maude forming a fast friendship and sharing profound lessons about life and death

Alphabetical Index of My Personal Eulogies

Review Encore Now streaming in the US: Nathalie Álvarez Mesén’s Clara Sola

Feature Film Review I got swept up in The Idea of You, says Solène Marchand, as she attempts to end her relationship with boy band singer Hayes Campbell

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Review Encore Now playing in the US: Nicolas Jack Davies’s Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird

Review Encore Now playing in the US: Jacquelyn Frohlich’s Wayward

Short Film Review Don’t tell anyone I was here, a mysterious man cautions Aziel Baxter, there’s too many Spiders in the Walls

Feature Film Review High-living Jimmy Erskine has been The Critic at The Daily Chronicle for decades, but the passing of his late boss may bring an end to all that

Feature Film Review Eileen Furlong may think her husband Bill spends too much time at night worrying about other people’s problems and Small Things Like These, but to Bill these are very big things

Review Encore Now playing in the US: Hannah Peterson’s The Graduates

Film Festival Journal My two-day visit to the four-day 25th Kerry International Film Festival

Short Film Review When Seán tells his parents back home, I Found a Place in Dublin, it is nothing like they (or he) expected

Short Film Review Suspiciously behaving young men pay too much time to Where the Old Man Lives for old Michael’s liking

Total Number of Feature Films, Documentaries and Shorts Reviewed to Date: 3,058