Revisiting ‘Shaft’ in 2019: The Father-Son Comedy That Cops Out
The 'Shaft' remake fails to capture blaxpoitation's rebellious spirit.

Sprigs of broom around a murder victim suggest an ancient legend.
The 'Shaft' remake fails to capture blaxpoitation's rebellious spirit.
Kate Winslet and Saorise Ronan deliver stellar performances in a film that doesn't live up to its potential.
Perhaps the most amazing and groundbreaking quality about The Birdcage is how removed it is from both illness and insensitivity. Whereas films preceding it were often somber stories about the tribulations of being gay in a conservatively straight world, Nichols and screenwriter Elaine May expose the fallacies of conservatism as traditional values are thrown into a more open-minded space. They don’t care how far the community has fallen so much as how high they can rebuild themselves.
The legacy of this movie starts off the film series with a bang of magic, plot twists, and battles.
Amsterdam is a confusing movie with a meandering plot amidst a beautiful rendering of 1930s New York