Movie Review: RELAY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/23/2025
RELAY movie poster | ©2025 Bleecker Street

Rating: R Stars: Riz Ahmed, Lily James, Sam Worthington, Willa Fitzgerald, Jared Abramson, Pun Bandhu, Eisa Davis, Matthew Maher, Victor Garber Writer: Justin Piasecki Director: David Mackenzie Distributor: Bleecker Street Release Date: August 22, 2025 RELAY features a device that was much more common in pre-Internet days but is still around now. Known as a TTY machine, it is used primarily by deaf people to communicate with others. If the TTY callers are both deaf, they both use the TTY. However, if one of the callers is hearing but doesn’t understand sign language and/or does not have access to a […]Read On »


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Movie Review: STRANGE DARLING

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/23/2024
STRANGE DARLING | ©2024 Magenta Light Studios / Miramax

Rating: R Stars: Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner, Madisen Beatty, Bianca Santos, Steven Michael Quezada, Ed Begley Jr., Barbara Hershey Writer: JT Mollner Director: JT Mollner Distributor: Magenta Light Studios/Miramax Release Date: August 23, 2024 How to review STRANGE DARLING without spoilers? It seems fair enough to include the film’s opening, which informs us that it’s shot in 35mm (something of a rarity these days). This allows cinematographer Giovanni Ribisi (also one of STRANGE DARLING’s producers) to play with crisp black-and-white, saturated colors and even over-saturation, depending on the mood of the sequence. At the black-and-white start, we see a man […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE GOLDFINCH

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/13/2019
THE GOLDFINCH movie poster | ©2019 Warner Bros.

Rating: R Stars: Ansel Elgort, Oakes Fegley, Jeffrey Wright, Nicole Kidman, Luke Wilson, Sarah Paulson, Ashleigh Cummings, Finn Wolfhard, Aneurin Barnard, Willa Fitzgerald, Denis O’Hare, Aimee Laurence, Ryan Foust Writer: Peter Straughan, based on the novel by Donna Tartt Director: John Crowley Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date: September 13, 2019 THE GOLDFINCH movie shares its title not only on the Pulitzer Prize-winning Donna Tartt novel on which it is based, but also with a real-world 1654 painting by Dutch artist Carel Fabritius. The “Goldfinch” painting is famous for having survived an explosion that killed Fabritius and destroyed most of his […]Read On »


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