Chuck Wilson

Review: In ‘The Life of Chuck,’ the World Might Be Going to Hell, But the Dancing’s Terrific

Chuck WilsonJune 6, 2025

A film of many pleasures, even if it sputters a bit in the homestretch, writer/director Mike Flanagan’s big-screen adaptation of the Stephen King novella The Li...

Review: ‘The Friend’ Is More Than Man’s – Or Woman’s – Best Friend

Chuck WilsonMarch 27, 2025

The film version of The Friend, Sigrid Nunez’s cerebral, plot-light novel, is longer than it needs to be, but you have to love a movie that quotes Samuel Becket...

Review: ‘Bring Them Down’ Is a Downer that Might Keep You Watching

Chuck WilsonFebruary 6, 2025

The debut feature from filmmaker Christopher Andrews, Bring Them Down, is an unsettling movie about miserable people. But the film’s extraordinary lead actors —...

Review: ‘Nickel Boys’ Shifts POVs to Tell a Disquieting Coming of Age Tale

Chuck WilsonDecember 20, 2024

Nickel Boys, filmmaker RaMell Ross’s brilliant adaptation (with co-writer Joslyn Barnes) of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, is the story of Elw...

Review: ‘Between the Temples’ Goes From the Head to the Heart

Chuck WilsonAugust 23, 2024

A film as eccentric as its main characters, director Nathan Silver’s Between the Temples offers perennial scene stealers Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane the le...

Review: ‘Crossing’ Traverses Borders and Boundaries

Chuck WilsonJuly 18, 2024

Crossing, the moving new film from Levan Akin, writer/director of the much loved And Then We Danced, opens with a woman known to all as Miss Lia (Mzia Arbul...

Review: ‘Janet Planet’ Revolves Around a Mother Who Eclipses Her Daughter

Chuck WilsonJune 18, 2024

The remarkable mother-daughter drama Janet Planet opens with a wonderfully staged comic moment. It is late at night in the Massachusetts countryside, circa 199...

TV Review: ‘Camp Snoopy’ Brings Pathos and Joy to a Boy and His Dog Tale

Chuck WilsonJune 13, 2024

Everything I know about summer camp I learned at the movies … and now from Camp Snoopy, the delightful new Apple TV series created, in part, to celebrate the 50...

Review: ‘Sting’ Brings Some Serious Bite

Chuck WilsonApril 9, 2024

“Seriously misunderstood creatures, spiders are,” declares Rubeus Hagrid in the film version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Hagrid is mourning Arago...

Dark Harvest: Children of the Gore

Chuck WilsonOctober 12, 2023

Director David Slade’s new Halloween horror movie, Dark Harvest (MGM Studios) has moments of visual verve and a cool pumpkin-headed demon ready to wreak havoc, ...

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Chuck Wilson

Review: In ‘The Life of Chuck,’ the World Might Be Going to Hell, But the Dancing’s Terrific

Review: ‘The Friend’ Is More Than Man’s – Or Woman’s – Best Friend

Review: ‘Bring Them Down’ Is a Downer that Might Keep You Watching

Review: ‘Nickel Boys’ Shifts POVs to Tell a Disquieting Coming of Age Tale

Review: ‘Between the Temples’ Goes From the Head to the Heart

Review: ‘Crossing’ Traverses Borders and Boundaries

Review: ‘Janet Planet’ Revolves Around a Mother Who Eclipses Her Daughter

TV Review: ‘Camp Snoopy’ Brings Pathos and Joy to a Boy and His Dog Tale

Review: ‘Sting’ Brings Some Serious Bite

Dark Harvest: Children of the Gore

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