Groucho Reviews

03/01/2025

Grab a copy of Palo Alto Weekly this week, or head to for even more of my Year in Film article: top docs and animated films, and heroes and villains of the year.

29/12/2024

Happy holidays, cineastes. My take on in is now posted at GrouchoReviews.com

30/10/2024

Third audience to see the new adventure of , Vengeance Most Fowl, coming soon to . Directors Nick Park & Merlin Crossingham in attendance for reception at Javva the Hutt and Q&A in ’s Premier Theater.

02/08/2024

Trust me, you’ll be hearing his name. Ruaridh Mollica’s star is on a rapid rise, especially with his starring role in , from Kino Lorber Films. You may have seen him in Netflix’s Red Rose or Hulu’s Witness Number 3, and he’s soon to star in Armando Iannucci’s ensemble comedy for Max, The Franchise. (If you like the interview, for the love of Pete, please like and subscribe. 😛)

09/04/2024

New Groucho Review:

She ostensibly plays a cinematic supervillain in The People’s Joker, but as the story of the film—and, finally, the film itself—reaches ever-wider audiences, Vera Drew has come into focus as a cinematic superhero...

17/01/2024

Check out my latest interview—and if you like this sort of thing, please “like and subscribe”! .d

16/01/2024

Trần Anh Hùng on , cooking, & working with :

IFC Films Larsen Associates

This interview took place on January 16, 2024 by Zoom during Tran's San Francisco stop on his press tour for The Taste of Things.

05/01/2024

Check out my cover story in this week’s Palo Alto Weekly, on stands today and at : the film year in review.

26/12/2023

Happy holidays, cineastes!

http://grouchoreviews.com/features/266

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Critics Choice Awards
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San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle
Galeca: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics

About Tall Grasses (back in theaters February 2024) Taking a leisurely pace, About Dry Grasses establishes harsh, meager eastern Anatolia; introduces us a cast of characters managing "the weariness of hope;" then ambles toward poetic, painful profundity about the impacts of our choices. Along the ...

19/07/2023

Only 30 screens in the world—19 in the U.S.—are projecting from film prints (11+ mile-long film prints). in San Francisco is one of them. Worth the trouble to see it how wants you to see it.

05/07/2023

Saw the air with your arms as you sprint to grouchoreviews.com for my review of Mission: Impossible . Paramount Pictures Allied Global Marketing

http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5284

It comes down to the extended climax to make or break Dead Reckoning...and happily, the finale delivers with what could be the most impressive train shenanigans since Buster Keaton's The General.

16/06/2023

Are you an fan? I have good news for you over at grouchoreviews.com. .mangold

08/06/2023

http://grouchoreviews.com/reviews/5281

For all its flaws, The Flash proves strong on character where it counts as it serves up its MCU-style comedy, tragedy, and wow-factor visuals...In the final equation, the Scarlet Speedster gi

08/06/2023

Speed to grouchoreviews.com for my new review of !

29/04/2023

Somehow heartbreak feels good in a place like this completely empty theater.

10/02/2023

New interview at GrouchoReviews.com with — writer-director of the new release :

http://www.grouchoreviews.com/interviews/484

08/01/2023

Be sure to pick up your print edition of this week so you can put this on your fridge. 😉

26/12/2022

Top 10 time—bookmark it, and happy viewing!

1. Aftersun (in theaters & on VOD) In an astonishingly confident feature directorial debut, writer-director Charlotte Wells explores the coming of age of an 11-year-old-girl (Frankie Coiro); the troubled mind, body, and spirit of her father (Paul Mescal); and their loving but frustrated relationshi...