Movie Reviews

By Sandra Olmsted Returning director John Madden brings life to this sequel of the 2011 surprise hit, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and does it well because the characters, who…

By Sandra Olmsted According to the Oscar buzz, Still Alice, which is in theaters now, is bound for one Oscar, and it’s the only one it’s nominated for (Best Actress)…

By Sandra Olmsted Writer/director Mike Binder’s Black or White, an absorbing look at race in America, opens with successful California attorney Elliot Anderson (Kevin Costner) in the hallway of a…

By Sandra Olmsted Director Clint Eastwood again proves he know what war is all about in American Sniper, which is based on Chris Kyle’s American Sniper: The Autobiography of the…

By Sandra Olmsted Director Paul Thomas Anderson adapts Thomas Pynchon’s 2009 novel Inherent Vice and captures Pynchon’s love of movies and the transition from the decade of free love to…

By Sandra Olmsted Director Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, which has already garnered prestigious accolates, mostly for acting, chronicles the true store of eccentric multimillionaire John du Pont’s (Steve Carell) descent into…

By Sandra Olmsted Director Peter Jackson’s final installment in his extended adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is definite the best of his three prequels to The Lord of the…

By Sandra Olmsted Director Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings lacks the spiritual majesty and mystery of Cecil B. DeMille’s original Biblical epic, The Ten Commandments, and figuring out where…