Derek Winnert

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The Goldfinch **** (2019, Oakes Fegley, Ansel Elgort, Nicole Kidman, Boyd Gaines, Luke Wilson, Sarah Paulson, Finn Wolfhard, Jeffrey Wright) – Movie Review

Director John Crowley’s smart 2019 drama The Goldfinch stars Oakes Fegley as a 13-year-old boy, Theo Decker, whose mother is killed in a terrorist bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and […]

Sep, 28

Aparajito ***** (1956, Pinaki Sengupta, Smaran Ghosal, Karuna Bannerjee, Kanu Bannerjee, Kanu Bannerjee, Kamala Adhikari) – Classic Movie Review 7739

Writer-producer-director Satyajit Ray’s 1956 Indian masterpiece Aparajito [The Unvanquished] is the wonderfully touching middle episode in Ray’s majestic epic family drama the Apu trilogy, which takes the saga from the hero’s infancy of Pather Panchali […]

Nov, 02

The Secret of Marrowbone ** (2018, George MacKay, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Mia Goth, Matthew Stagg, Nicola Harrison, Kyle Soller) – Movie Review

George MacKay stars in The Secret of Marrowbone (2018) as a young English man called Jack who lives in an ancient American manor house with his three younger siblings (Charlie Heaton, Mia Goth, Matthew Stagg), who […]

Jul, 15

Get Out **** (2017, Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, LilRel Howery, Marcus Henderson, LilRel Howery) – Movie Review

The 2017 mystery horror thriller is an original mix of horror film and social commentary. Jordan Peele became the first African-American to win the Best Original Screenplay Oscar. London-born Daniel Kaluuya shows star quality. The […]

Mar, 17

Things to Come [L’avenir] **** (2016, Isabelle Huppert, André Marcon, Roman Kolinka, Edith Scob) – Movie Review

It never rains but it pours! Isabelle Huppert enchants as Paris high school philosophy teacher Nathalie, whose life starts coming apart at the seams when her difficult, possessive mother (Edith Scob) gets sick and dies, her husband (André Marcon) announces he is leaving […]

Sep, 04

None But the Lonely Heart *** (1944, Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, Barry Fitzgerald, June Duprez, Jane Wyatt, George Coulouris, Dan Duryea) – Classic Movie Review 2340

Screen-writer/director Clifford Odets’s earnest and moody 1944 melodrama None But the Lonely Heart provides Cary Grant with one of his only two Best Actor Oscar nominations in his long and illustrious career. In this amusing curiosity based […]

Mar, 31

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