Film Reviews The Beguiled (2017) Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock — the 1975 film that set the tonal template for Sofia Coppola's films — is more powerfully present here than in any of her previous work, even The Virgin Suicides. Again, we have women and girls in isolation, imprisoned in a vocabulary
Film Reviews Witness: a Looking Closer Exemplar review Sometimes I come across a review that is so complete, so thorough, and so well-written that it really needs nothing from me but a recommendation. Steven Greydanus's look back at Peter Weir's masterful thriller Witness is one of those. But never mind: I'm going
Film Reviews Dead Poets Society (1989) Alissa Wilkinson, chief film critic for Christianity Today, asked me if I've ever changed my mind about a movie... and would I write about that? So I'm asking you. What's a movie you loved the first time, or hated the first time, and then
