The Ice Tower
| B- | Fantastic Fest 2025 | This felt very much like a French art house film. There was some story, but so much of the film was slow and…
Sorry, Baby
| B+ | Sundance Film Festival 2025 | I was impressed with the quality of this movie all around. The script and direction and editing were all intertwined (I assume)…
Bunnylovr
| B | Sundance Film Festival 2025 | This movie was more a slice-of-life story, or character study, than a traditional movie with a character arc. Which, it seems to…
The Ego Death of Queen Cecilia
| B+ | Austin Film Festival 2024 | I really enjoyed this film. The main character was interesting, and on an emotional level going through something we all do at…
A Real Pain
| A- | Austin Film Festival 2024 | Delightful. Two quite opposite characters who love each other but come with the friction of being family. A really good script, with…
Daniela Forever
| B- | Fantastic Fest 2024 | Wow, this was a tough one. Nacho Vigalondo has written and directed a couple of my favorite movies (Timecrimes, Colossal), so my expectations…
Sunlight
| B | Austin Film Festival 2023 | I enjoyed this interesting examination of friendship and preparing for death. The premise comes with conflict built in—one friend is ill and…
Grapefruit
| B | Austin Film Festival | Honestly, I was very tired and falling asleep during part of this movie. Not the movie's fault at all—just film festival exhaustion setting…
Bucky F*cking Dent
| A- | Austin Film Festival 2023 | So well done! A beautiful and touching script. Excellent acting. (Stephanie Beatriz had one particularly notable scene.) Overall an impressive movie from…
The Altman Method
| C | Fantastic Fest 2023 | Hmm... Fantastic Fest's description called this a "black comedy," but I would label it a "grey drama." They also said it was "nuanced,"…