Green Book won the Oscar for Best Picture two weeks ago. It’s not a bad movie, because Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali are so good as Tony Lip and Doc Shirley, they overcome sometimes oversimplified material. We may not be ready to settle the debate on whether or not it deserved it yet, but this […]
Free State of Jones is a great historical epic that both conveys the escalation of a conflict and tells the human drama of living through that conflict. It covers 14 years which is a sprawling length of time, yet never feels rushed or confusing, and always feels compelling. Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey) deserts the Confederate […]