By:
On:
In: Reel Takes

by Michelle Keenan & Chip Kaufmann – 45 Years ****1/2 Short Take: Just before their 45th wedding anniversary a couple receives news that will forever change their relationship. REEL TAKE: 45 Years is a quiet, tiny film. But it seeps into your pores and packs a surprising emotional wallop. It’sContinue Reading

By:
On:
In: Reel Takes

by Michelle Keenan & Chip Kaufmann – Carol **** Short Take: Beautifully mounted period piece, set in the 1950s, about a married woman’s relationship with a shop girl and the fallout it causes. REEL TAKE: There has been a lot of buzz surrounding Carol and I’m sure that come OscarContinue Reading

By:
On:
In: Reel Takes

by Michelle Keenan & Chip Kaufmann – Brooklyn ***** Short Take: The story of a young Irish woman who moves to America in the early 1950’s. Reel Take: To describe John Crowley’s Brooklyn as a masterpiece makes it sound very grandiose, when in fact it is this film’s smallness thatContinue Reading

By:
On:
In: Reel Takes

by Michelle Keenan & Chip Kaufmann – Bridge of Spies **** Short Take: Good old fashioned story telling about good old fashioned courtroom drama and cold war espionage, based on the true story of an American attorney called upon to defend a Russian spy in the late 1950’s. REEL TAKE:Continue Reading

By:
On:
In: Reel Takes

by Michelle Keenan & Chip Kaufmann – Black Mass **** Short Take: Biopic about the rise of Boston Irish mobster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger and his alliance with corrupt FBI agent John Connelly. REEL TAKE: I like Johnny Depp, even when his career is in a slump, but I had someContinue Reading

By:
On:
In: Reel Takes

by Michelle Keenan & Chip Kaufmann – Diary of a Teenage Girl **** Short Take: The sexually frank story of a 15 year old girl in 1976 who has an affair with her mother’s 35 year old boyfriend. Reel Take: Critics are singing the praises for Marielle Heller’s indie darling DiaryContinue Reading

By:
On:
In: Reel Takes

by Michelle Keenan & Chip Kaufmann – Ant-Man **** Short Take: A refreshingly light superhero movie with big heart and lots of laughs. REEL TAKE: In the interest of full disclosure, I’m not the half of Reel Takes that usually reviews the superhero movies. The last comic book I readContinue Reading

By:
On:
In: Reel Takes

Dope **** ½ Short Take: A precocious trio of misfits from ‘the Bottoms’ inadvertently end up with a backpack full of drugs, a gun and a wild ride. Reel Take: Dope is a little movie that may or may not still be in local theaters by the time you readContinue Reading

By:
On:
In: Reel Takes

Avengers: The Age of Ultron *** ½ Short Take: An unbelievably convoluted plot, too many characters, and overbearing special effects made this a real endurance contest for me, but fans of the series will feel differently. Reel Take: “The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things,Continue Reading