I remain on the Sergei Polunin beat at RogerEbert.com with my review of “Simple Passion,” in which the bad-boy ballet dancer plays an elusive Russian diplomat having a purely physical affair with a divorced Parisian professor. It’s all very torrid, but his character is intentionally vapid and boring, and the...
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Reviews
RogerEbert.com — The White Crow
“The White Crow,” Ralph Fiennes’ drama about Rudolf Nureyev’s defection from the Soviet Union in 1961, captures the Russian dance legend’s bravado and brash spirit, but it never reaches his resplendent heights. It’s handsome but restrained. Oleg Ivenko, a dancer making his film debut, is quite good, though, in the...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 4/25/19
It’s the biggest weekend ever in the history of big weekends with the opening of “Avengers: Endgame.” Alonso, Matt and I have a review of the Marvel movie behemoth as well as a separate, in-depth spoiler talk, which runs from about 17:00 to 42:30, if you’d like to skip ahead...
Read more10 Worst Films of 2018
It’s been a year of changes around here, but it has remained a pleasure and a source of pride to be able to review films for a living. I still have six jobs and I have no job, as I like to say — it’s just that those jobs sometimes...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Disney’s “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms” is an enormous, expensive lump of coal, as complicated and convoluted as its title. It’s so garish and misguided, it reminded me of “Cloud Atlas” at times. If you’re going to see it, just go for the costumes and the brief, beautiful snippets...
Read moreWhat the Flick?! Podcast 11/1/18
It’s the most … wonderful time … of the year. That’s right, it’s time for another episode of the What the Flick?! Podcast. And since it’s November, that means it’s also time for Christmas movies. This week, Alonso, Matt and I review the overstuffed yet empty Disney extravaganza “The Nutcracker and...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Dancer
“Dancer” is an intimate, riveting documentary about Ukrainian ballet superstar Sergei Polunin, the media-hyped “bad boy” who reached the heights of success at an astonishingly young age, only to walk away from it all at 25. Director Steven Cantor explores the paradox of having it all and still not feeling...
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