Rating: 1/4 Ang Lee and Will Smith. 10 years ago, such a cinematic alliance would have excited audiences to extreme heights. A decade past, Smith was the…… Read more “New from Robert Daniels on 812 Film Reviews: ‘Gemini Man:’ Should’ve Waited Twice as Long”

Rating: 3.5/4 For a segment of the population, the fight for civil rights has not ceased. The danger of existing has not abated, abuse and early death…… Read more “New from Robert Daniels on 812 Film Reviews: ‘The Garden Left Behind:’ Delivers a Breakout Performance Carlie Guevara”

Rating: 3.5/4 Doesn’t it warm the heart to see Agnès Varda on screen again? The iconic New Wave filmmaker—known for seminal works like Cleo 5 to 7…… Read more “New from Robert Daniels on 812 Film Reviews: NYFF Review: Varda by Agnès”

Rating: 3.5/4 Tales of masculine companionship often invite unrequited feelings of anguish—suppressed bonds that involve more than a gun. The American West, whose background typically includes hard…… Read more “New from Robert Daniels on 812 Film Reviews: NYFF Review: First Cow”

Rating: 4/4 On the first day of TIFF, I made a mistake. See, my schedule began simply enough. My first film was Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life.…… Read more “New from Robert Daniels on 812 Film Reviews: NYFF Review: Portrait of a Lady on Fire”

Rating: 3/4 When I was an English student, the death of the book seemed an inevitability. Borders crashed and burned and other Independent bookstores shuttered their windows.…… Read more “New from Robert Daniels on 812 Film Reviews: NYFF Review: ‘The Booksellers’”

Rating: 1.5/4 Greed is good, or at least defensible in Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat. The second film from the director in 2019: the first being High Flying…… Read more “New from Robert Daniels on 812 Film Reviews: The Laundromat is a Deeply Misguided Attempt at Reform”