Film critic Andy Ray reviews the best pictures of the twenty-teens.
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Excellent Chilean film won Best Foreign Language Oscar.
Road trip movie unites three Viet Nam soldiers in “Last Flag Flying”
Outstanding screenplay, performances highlight one of year’s best.
Coming-of-age story is one of this year’s top achievements in filmmaking.
In summer of 2014, director Richard Linklater reignited Ethan Hawke’s career, providing him with his Oscar-nominated supporting performance in Boyhood. Now, Hawke’s resurgence continues with his portrayal of jazz musician Chet Baker in Robert Budreau’s Born to be Blue – an uncompromising look at a once-promising career shattered by drug abuse. While other notable jazz performers of the 1950s suffered from drug addiction, none of their career trajectories was as disrupted as Baker’s. Over a half-century later, most of us can rattle off names like Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, and Louis Armstrong. Chet Baker? Now that’s another story. Only true [More]