One man’s ambition sets up a fascinating clash between his indigenous Wayuu clan’s traditional values and encroaching ideals propelled by greed and violence.
Your guide to Asheville's vibrant and diverse movie offerings.
Your guide to Asheville's vibrant and diverse movie offerings.
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One man’s ambition sets up a fascinating clash between his indigenous Wayuu clan’s traditional values and encroaching ideals propelled by greed and violence.
The surprise double Oscar nominee is a rewarding but trying three-hour experience.
An all-time great child performance and sustained hope over a lengthy runtime makes Nadine Labaki’s latest a worthy Oscar nominee.
RaMell Ross’ Oscar-nominated documentary both warrants enthusiasm for its directorial creativity, yet frequently allows this same unconventionality to bog down the proceedings.
The five worthy live action short films nominated for the Oscar lean in hard to the dark side — with one exception.
A slightly twisted new effort from Pixar leads the field of five animated short films nominated for the 2019 Academy Award and playing at the Grail starting Feb. 8.
A committed Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly practically disappear in this thoroughly pleasant biopic of Laurel and Hardy.
Julia Roberts and Lucas Hedges excel in the second powerful family drama from 2018 to take on the opioid crisis.
Mimi Leder grows RBG’s onscreen legacy through crowd-pleasing but largely rote narrative biopic means.
Barry Jenkins’ James Baldwin adaptation may very well be the only film of 2018 that can be called “beautiful.”
See Alfonso Cuarón’s Best Picture contender on the big screen while you can.
Not nearly as bad as advertised, the reunion of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly nonetheless can’t quite be called “good.”
Bruce and Edwin loop in honorary Asheville Movie Guy, Christopher Oakley, for a roundtable discussion of Adam McKay’s Dick Cheney biopic.
True to form, the year’s most joyful film is practically perfect in every way.
Peter Jackson’s colorized WWI documentary is visually extraordinary, but fairly dry in other regards.
Robert Zemeckis’ effects-heavy hybrid builds on Mark Hogancamp’s psychology as introduced in the acclaimed documentary Marwencol.
The ‘80s-set Transformers prequel is one of the year’s most emotionally manipulative films.
The fact-based cross between House of Cards and Game of Thrones never quite reaches the heights of those stylistic inspirations.
