Tag: ***1/2; three-and-a-half

I, Tonya (2017)
I don’t really give much thought to Tonya Harding. To be honest, there really isn’t much to think about. I know the bare bones of her 25 year-old scandal which I hardly paid attention to even then. I know she was tossed out of the United States Figure Skating Association over an assault on Nancy […]

Baby Driver (2017)
For a young fellow like Baby, music is the milk of life. Mixed and remixed, culled from the ambient noise of human motion and refitted into a soundtrack that guides his every step and every action, life has a rhythm and a composition that he will not deny himself. When he walks down the street, […]

The Oscar Nominees: Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
You’re supposed to be singing about the voices of spring, not the eruption of a volcano. – Shemp Howard It is clear early on that Florence Foster Jenkins really doesn’t know the difference. She was a terrible singer whose unenviable singing voice emitted squawks comparable to a goose passing bricks instead of eggs. During World […]