Everyone knows Nick Offerman as the ultra-manly, wood-chopping Ron Swanson from Parks & Recreation but now that the mustache is off, Offerman has taken on more grounded roles that let him expand his range rather than stilt him in caricature.…
Sundance 2018 Review: Hearts Beat Loud
Everyone knows Nick Offerman as the ultra-manly, wood-chopping Ron Swanson from Parks & Recreation. But now that the mustache is off, Offerman has taken on more grounded roles that let him expand his range rather than stilt him in caricature.…
IFF Boston Review: The Little Hours
The Little Hours opens with a promising title sequence: medieval-era nun Aubrey Plaza leads a donkey through the woods as dramatic, orchestral music plays. The instinctive association one makes is to Monty Python and the Holy Grail, a comparison that…
Sundance 2017 Review: The Hero
To read more coverage of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, go here After Jeff Bridges won his Oscar for Crazy Heart, the “elderly celebrity wistfully chases his former glory,” film is practically its own genre. It certainly serves as a…
Movie Review: The Founder
Oh look, there’s a critic on The Young Folks named Donald, and he’s reviewing a movie about the fast food chain McDonald’s! Yeah, I’m not buying that as coincidental either. We all think we know the story of McDonald’s, all the…
Movie Review: Ice Age: Collision Course
One giant mess is right. For a franchise that started out with a warm, beating heart behind it in the first film, the Ice Age series has gradually gotten worse and worse with each new entry. But like most sequels,…
Movie Review: ‘Welcome to Happiness’
A man sits alone near a fireplace and puts a gun in his mouth. Somewhere else a beautiful red-headed woman gets ready to eat dinner with an eccentric rich man, with an appetite for strange purchases. Still elsewhere an old…