Review – Hidden Figures

The largely unknown stories of three brilliant black women who, behind the scenes at NASA, were crucial to putting the first American in space and beyond.

Review – Sing

Is it too much to hope for to have 2016 bookended by two great movies about anthropomorphic animals?

Review – La La Land

Rogue One may be the *big deal* movie this weekend, but make sure you don’t forget about La La Land! We (Washington Area Film Critics Association) did award it best film of the year after all!

Review – Rogue One

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is the best Star Wars film ever made.

Review – Miss Sloane

Elizabeth Sloane (Jessica Chastain) is one of DC’s most veracious lobbyists with a reputation for winning whatever she puts her mind to. When her firm is approached by the gun lobby, her moral center guides her in a different direction, putting her squarely against one of the most powerful groups on the Hill.

Review – Jackie

  Natalie Portman stars as one of America’s most recognizable first ladies in this portrait of Jackie Kennedy.

Review – The Eyes of My Mother

When a young girl faces a gruesome tragedy, it changes her in in disturbing ways, shaping her adult life into something grotesque. Or maybe she would have been that way regardless. It’s not really clear.

Review – Moana

Disney animation has been in the midst of something of a renaissance lately. Their most recent film takes us to ancient Polynesia and introduces to a girl named Moana.

Review – The Edge of Seventeen

Nadine (Haillee Steinfeld) is having it rough. Not only does she feel like an outcast among outcasts, her only confidant, her best friend, has just done something unconscionable and their friendship may never recover. A darkly funny, cynically hopeful, joyfully angsty awkward teenage experience on film.

Review – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

It’s been five years since the Harry Potter films ended but Warner Brothers invites us to enter the wizarding world of J. K. Rowling once again. Is this a new story worth exploring, or is it a needless money-grabbing prequel? Well, kind of both.