Review Index

Here you will find links to every review that has been published on From the Front Row from 2006 to the present. This does not include reviews that have been printed in The Dispatch, which date back to 2004.

#

• 4:44 Last Day on Earth - ★★
• 4 Days in France - ★★★½
• 12 Strong - ★★ 
• 24 City - ★★★ 
• 35 Shots of Rum -★★★½ 
• 101 Dalmatians - ★★★½
• (500) Days of Summer - ★★★
• 45365 - ★★★½ 

A

• Abraham Lincoln - ★½
• Acrimony - ★★½ 
• Act of God - ★½
• Adrift - ★★
• Afghan Star - ★★★
• Afterschool - ★★½
• Agora - ★★
• Alamar - ★★★½
• Albatross - ★
• Alice - ★★½
• All that Jazz - ★★★★
• The Ambassador - ★★½
• Amer - ★★★
• American Swing - ★★½
• Amour - ★★★★
• The Ancient Law - ★★★★
• Andrei Rublev - ★★★★
• An Education - ★★½
• Annihilation - ★★★½
• Antichrist - ★★★★
• Ant-Man and the Wasp - ★★★
• Anvil! The Story of Anvil - ★★★½
• Aquaman - ★★½
• A Quiet Place - ★★★
• Armadillo - ★★★★
• Around a Small Mountain (DVD) - ★★★½
• Around a Small Mountain (Theatrical) - ★★½
• At Eternity's Gate - ★★★½
• Audrey Rose - ★★★½
• Au Pair Girls - ★★½
• Aurora - ★★★½  
• Away We Go - ★★½

B

• The Baader Meinhof Complex - ★★★
• Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend - ★★
• Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans - ★★★
• Bad Times at the El Royale - ★★★
• Bal (Honey) - ★★★
• Bananas - ★★★
• Battle of the Sexes - ★★★
• Battling Butler - ★★★
• The Beaches of Agnes - ★½
• Beauty and the Beast (1946) - ★★★½
• Bedtime Stories - ★★½
• Beeswax - ★★½
• Belle de Jour - ★★★½
• Beloved - ★★½
• Ben is Back - ★★★
• Berlin: Symphony of a Great City - ★★★½
• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - ★★½
• Best Worst Movie - ★★★
• Betty Blue - ★★★
• Beyond the Black Rainbow - ★★★½
• The Big Country - ★★★½
• The Big Shot-Caller - ★★★
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure - ★★★½
• Bill Cunningham New York - ★★★
• Birdboy: The Forgotten Children - ★★½
• The Birth of a Nation (2011 Kino Blu-Ray) - ★★★★
  
• The Birth of a Nation (2018 Twilight Time Blu-Ray) - ★★★★
• BlacKkKlansman - ★★★★
• The Blob - ★★★
• Blockers - ★★★
• Blood Feast - ★ 
• Bluebeard - ★★★½ 
• Blue Denim - ★★★
• Boo 2! A Madea Halloween - ★½
• Bowling for Columbine - ★★★½
• BPM (Beats Per Minute) - ★★½
• A Bread Factory Part One: For the Sake of Gold - ★★★½
• A Bread Factory Part Two: Walk with Me a While - ★★★½
• Bride Flight - ★★½
• Bright Star - ★★★
• Broken Embraces - ★★½
• Brotherhood - ★★★
• Buck - ★★½
• Bumblebee - ★★½
• Burning - ★★★½
• The Burning Plain - ★★
• Buster Keaton: The Shorts Collection - ★★★★ 

C

• California Dreamin' (Endless) - ★★★½
• Call Me By Your Name - ★★★★
• Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff - ★★★
• Caniba - ★★★½
• Can You Ever Forgive Me? - ★★★
• Captain Abu Raed - ★★★½ 
• Carol Channing: Larger Than Life - ★★★½
• Caterpillar - ★★½ 
• Celeste and Jesse Forever - ★★
• Certified Copy - ★★★½
• Chappaquiddick - ★★★
• Cheri - ★★
• Chicken with Plums - ★★
• Chloe - ★★½
• Christopher Robin - ★★★
• The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom - ★★★
• Cinderella Liberty - ★★½
• City Lights - ★★★★
• City of Life and Death - ★★★½ 
• Claire's Camera - ★★★
• The Cloverfield Paradox - ★★★
• College - ★★★½
• Color Me Blood Red - ½
• The Color of Pomegranates - ★★★½
• Communion - ★½
• The Commuter - ★★★
• Compliance - ★★★½
• The Congress - ★★★½
• Coriolanus - ★★★½
• Crazy Rich Asians - ★★★
• Crooked House - ★★

D

• Daddy's Home 2 - ★★½
• Daguerreotypes - ★★★½ 
• Dancer in the Dark - ★★★★ 
• La danse - Le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris - ★★★½
• Darkest Hour - ★★★
• Dawson City: Frozen Time - ★★★★
• The Day After - ★★★½
• A Day in the Country - ★★★½
• Deadpool 2 - ★★★
• Dead Souls - ★★★½
• The Death of Louis XIV - ★★★½
• Death Wish - ★½
• Departures - ★★★
• The Desert Bride - ★★★½
• The Desert of Forbidden Art - ★★½
• The Devil's Needle & Other Tales of Vice and Redemption - ★★★
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days - ★★★
• Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? - ★★★½
• The Disaster Artist - ★★½
• Distant Constellation - ★★★½
• District 9 - ★★★½
• Il Divo - ★★★½
• Dogtooth - ★★★½
• Don't Bother to Knock - ★★★
• The Double Hour - ★★★
• Downsizing - ★★★
• Dragon Inn - ★★★½
• Dream Boy - ★★
• Drums Along the Mohawk - ★★★★
• The Duke of Burgundy - ★★★½

E

• Early Man - ★★½
• Earthwork - ★★ 
• Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl - ★★★½
• The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds - ★★★½
• Eichmann - ★★½
• Eighth Grade - ★★★½
• Elektra Luxx - ½ 
• Elena - ★★★
• El Mar La Mar - ★★★½
• The End of Poverty? - ★★½
• Ernest & Celestine - ★★★
• Escape From Tomorrow - ★
• Even the Rain - ★★★
• Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone - ★★½
• Ex Libris: The New York Public Library - ★★★½
• The Exploding Girl - ★★½ 
• Eyes Wide Open - ★★★

F

• Fahrenheit 11/9 - ★★★
• The Fairy - ★★★
• Fantastic Mr. Fox - ★★★½
• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - ★★
• A Fantastic Woman - ★★★½
• Fascination - ★★★
• Fate is the Hunter - ★★½
• The Favourite - ★★★½
• Ferdinand - ★½
• Fifi Howls From Happiness - ★★★½
• Fifty Shades Freed - ★★
• Film Socialisme - zero stars 
• First Man - ★★★½
• First Reformed - ★★★½
• Fish Tank - ★★★½ 
• The Flowers of War - ★★
• Food, Inc. - ★★★½ 
• The Foreigner - ★★
• Four Lions - ★★★
• Free Solo - ★★
• The Front Runner - ★★½

G

• Game Night - ★★★
• The Garden - ★★★½
• General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait - ★★★½
• General Orders No. 9 - ★★★
• Giorgio Moroder Presents Metropolis - ★★½ 
• The Girl (Flickan) - ★★½
• The Girlfriend Experience - ★★½
• The Girl on the Train - ★★★
• A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night - ★★★½
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2010) - ★★½
• Glass - ★★★
• Gloria - ★★★½
• Godard Mon Amour - ★★
• God Help the Girl - ★★★
• God's Own Country - ★★★½
• The Gold Rush - ★★★½
• Goodbye Christopher Robin - ★★★
• The Good Heart - ★★½
• Good Time - ★★★½
• Go West - ★★½
• The Greatest Showman - ★★½
• The Great Flood - ★★★
• Green Book - ★★½
• Guest of Cindy Sherman - ★★★
• Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench - ★★★½

H

• Hale County This Morning, This Evening - ★★★½
• Halloween (2018) - ★★★½
• Happy Death Day - zero stars
• Happy End - ★★
• Happy People: A Year in the Taiga - ★★★
• Harry Brown - ★★
• The Hate U Give - ★★★
• The Headless Woman - ★★★
• Headshot - ★★★
• Heartbeats - ★★½
• Hell Fest - ★★½
• Hereditary - ★★★½
• Hilda Crane - ★★½
• The Hitch-Hiker - ★★★
• Holy Motors - ★★★★
• The Holy Mountain - ★★★
• The Horse Boy -  ★★½
• Hors Satan - ★★★½
• Hostiles - ★★★½
• House of Pleasures - ★★★½
• How to Survive a Plague - ★★
• The Human Centipede (First Sequence) - ★★
• The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) - zero stars
• Hunger - ★★★½
• The Hurt Locker - ★★★½ 
• Hyde Park on Hudson - ★★

I

• I Am Love - ★★½
• I Can Only Imagine - ★★
• I Don't Know How She Does It -  ★★½
• If Beale Street Could Talk - ★★★½
• I Killed My Mother - ★★★
• The Image Book - ★★★½
• The Impossible - ★★★
• In a Better World - ★★★ 
• In Another Country - ★★★½
• Incredibles 2 - ★★★
• Infinite Football - ★★★½
• Insidious: The Last Key - ★★½
• The Insult - ★★
• The Interrupters - ★★★½
• The Interview - ★★★
• In the City of Sylvia - ★★★½
• In the Family - ★★★½
• In the Mood for Love - ★★★★
• Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grand Master - ★★★
• The Iron Rose - ★★★★
• The Island President - ★★★
• Isle of Dogs - ★★★
• I, Tonya - ★★★
• I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You - ★★★½
• Ivan's Childhood - ★★★★

J

• Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child - ★★★½
• Jauja - ★★★½
• J. Edgar - ★★★½
• Jerichow - ★★★
• La Jetée - ★★★★
• Jigsaw - ★★
• Joan of Arc - ★★½
• The Judge - ★★★
• Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle - ★★½
• The Jungle Book - ★★½
• Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom - ★★
• Justice League - ★★
• Just Say Love - ★½

K

• Katyn - ★★½
• Keyhole - ★★★
• The Kid with a Bike - ★★★½
• Killer's Moon - ★★★
• The Killing of a Sacred Deer - ★★★½
• Kill List - ★★½
• Kin - ★★½
• Kings of the Evening -★★
• Koch - ★★★

L

• La Chinoise - ★★½
• Lady Bird - ★★★½
• Lady Macbeth - ★★
• The Lady Vanishes - ★★★★
• Landmarks of Early Soviet Film - ★★★★
• The Last Airbender - ★½
• The Last Mountain - ★★★ 
• Last Train Home - ★★★½
• L'Atalante - ★★★★
• A Late Quartet - ★★½
• Leap Year (Año Bisiesto) - ★★★
• Lebanon - ★★★½ 
• Le Gai Savoir - ★★★
• Le Quattro Volte - ★★★★ 
• Let My People Go! - ★★½
• Letters to Father Jacob - ★★★½
• Leviathan - ★★★★
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - ★★★★
• Life During Wartime - ★★★
• Like Father, Like Son - ★★★½
• Lincoln - ★★★½
• The Lion in Winter - ★★★½
• Lips of Blood - ★★★½
• Little Lord Fauntleroy - ★★★½
• The Living Dead Girl - ★★★ 
• Lonesome - ★★★★
• Lorna's Silence - ★★★
• Lourdes - ★★★★
• Loveless - ★★★½
• Love, Simon - ★★★
• Lula, Son of Brazil - ★★

M

• Maborosi - ★★★½
• Mademoiselle Chambon - ★★★
• Make-Out with Violence - ★★★
• Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again - ★★
• Manhattan Murder Mystery - ★★★½
• Manila in the Claws of Light - ★★★½
• Manuela y Manuel - ★★½
• The Man Who Cheated Himself - ★★★
• The Man Who Knew Too Much - ★★★½ 
• Margin Call - ★★ 
• Marjorie Prime - ★★★½ 
• Marwencol - ★★★
• Mary Poppins Returns - ★★
• A Matter of Life and Death - ★★★★
• Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God - ★★★½
• Medicine for Melancholy - ★★★
• The Meg - ★½
• Méliès: Fairy Tales in Color - ★★★½
• The Messenger - ★★★½
• Me, Too - ★★½
• The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) - ★★★½
• Micmacs - ★★
• Mid-August Lunch -★★★ 
• The Milk of Sorrow - ★★½
• The Mill & The Cross - ★★★
• Minding the Gap - ★★★½
• The Miners' Hymns - ★★★½
• Mirai - ★★½
• Misconceptions - ★★½
• Mission: Impossible - Fallout - ★★★
• Model Shop - ★★★½
• Monrovia, Indiana - ★★★½
• Monsieur Lazhar - ★★★
• Moon - ★★½ 
• Moscow, Belgium - ★★★
• Mother - ★★★½
• The Mountain Between Us - ★★½
• The Mule - ★★★½
• Munyrangabo - ★★★★
• Murder in Fashion - no stars 
• My Dog Tulip - ★★★ 
• My Perestroika - ★★★
• My Week with Marilyn - ★★★

N

• The Navigator - ★★★½
• The Names of Love - ★★
• Ne Change Rien - ★★★
• Neil Young Journeys - ★★★
• New World Order - ★★½ 
• Night Across the Street - ★★★½
• Night of the Demons 2 - ★★★
• Nobody's Fool - ★½
• Nocturama - ★★★★
• No One Knows About Persian Cats - ★★★½
• North Face - ★★★
• Norwegian Wood - ★★★
• The Notebook (2014) - ★★
• Notes on an Appearance - ★★★
• Nothing Personal - ★★½
• Novitiate - ★★½
• Nowhere Boy - ★★
• The Nude Vampire - ★★½
• Nymphomaniac - ★★★½

O

• The Oath - ★★★½
• Ocean's 8 - ★★½
• Octubre - ★★★   
• The Odd Life of Timothy Green - ★★★
• Off Jackson Avenue - ★★
• Of Gods and Men - ★★★½
• Of Time and the City - ★★
• On Body and Soul - ★★★
• Once Upon a Time in Anatolia - ★★★½
• One Lucky Elephant - ★★★
• Only the Brave - ★★★
• On the Basis of Sex - ★★½
• On the Beach at Night Alone - ★★★½
• On the Road - ★★
• Orpheus - ★★★★
• OSS 117: Lost in Rio - ★★
• The Other Side of Hope - ★★★
• The Other Side of the Wind - ★★★★
• The Outlaw - ★★½
• Outrage - ★★★

P

• Page One: Inside the New York Times - ★★★ 
• Pariah - ★★★½
• Patience (After Sebald) - ★★★
• Pelican Dreams - ★★
• Perfect Sense - ★★★
• Peter Rabbit - ★★
• The Phantom Carriage - ★★★★ 
• Phantom Thread - ★★★★ 
• The Philadelphia Story - ★★★½
• Poetry - ★★★★
• Police, Adjective - ★★★½ 
• Ponyo - ★★★½
• Porto - ★★★½
• Potiche - ★★★
• The Predator - ★★½
• Prince of Broadway - ★★★½
• The Private Lives of Pippa Lee - ★★½
• Prodigal Sons - ★★★ 
• Project Nim - ★★★½
• A Prophet (Un Prophète) - ★★★
• A propos de Nice - ★★★½
• PROTOTYPE - ★★★½
• Proud Mary - ★★★
• Putty Hill - ★½

Q

• Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? - ★★½
• Queen to Play - ★★★ 

R

• R - ★★★
• Rage (Rabia) - ★★★
• Ralph Breaks the Internet - ★★★
• RBG - ★★★½
• Red Army - ★★ 
• Red Riding: 1974 - ★★★½
• Red Riding: 1980 - ★★½
• Red Riding: 1983 - ★★★
• Red Sparrow - ★★
• The Return - ★★★½
• Revenge - ★★★★
• The Rider - ★★★★
• Rocco and His Brothers - ★★★½
• Roma - ★★★½
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Undead - ½
• Rosetta - ★★★½
• The Rudolph Valentino Collection
• The Rules of the Game - ★★★★
• The Running Man - ★★★

S

• The Sacrifice - ★★★★
• Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom - ★★★★
• Sans Soleil - ★★★½
• Santa Claus Conquers the Martians - zero stars
• The Saphead - ★★½
• Scarlet Street - ★★★½
• The Scent of Green Papaya -  ★★★½
• A Screaming Man - ★★★½
• Searching - ★★★
• The Sex Thief - ★½
• Shark Night - ★★ 
• The Secret in Their Eyes - ★★ 
• The Secret of Kells - ★★½ 
• Secret Sunshine - ★★★½  
• The Selfish Giant - ★★★
• A Separation - ★★★★
• Serbis - ★★★½ 
• The Sessions - ★★
• Seven Chances - ★★★½
• Shakespeare High - ★★★
• Shall We Kiss? - ★★★
• Shame - ★★★½ 
• The Shape of Water - ★★★½
• The Shiver of the Vampires - ★★½
• Shoes - ★★★½
• Shoplifters - ★★★½
• The Sicilian Girl - ★½
• The Silence of the Lambs - ★★★★
• Silent Souls - ★★½
• Simon and the Oaks - ★★★
• A Simple Life - ★★★
• Sleeping Beauty - ★★★½
• Smashed - ★★★
• Solo: A Star Wars Story - ★★★
• The Song of Sparrows - ★★★
• Song of the Sea - ★★★
• Soul Kitchen - ★★★
• South of the Border - ★★★½
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - ★★★
• The Spiders - ★★★½
• The Spiral Staircase - ★★★½
• Spirited Away - ★★★★ 
• Spring Fever - ★★★
• The Square - ★★★
• Stan & Ollie - ★★★
• A Star is Born (1937) - ★★★★
• A Star is Born (2018) - ★★★½
• Still Walking - ★★★★
• Starlet - ★★★½
• Stonewall Uprising - ★★★
• The Stoning of Soraya M. - ★★★
• The Strange Case of Angelica - ★★★½ 
• The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears - ★
• The Strangers: Prey at Night - ★★½
• Strike - ★★★★
• Strippers vs. Werewolves - ★½
• Struck by Lightning - ★★★
• Summer Hours - ★★★½
• Summer Interlude - ★★★
• Summer with Monika - ★★★★
• The Sun Behind the Clouds - ★★½
• Support the Girls - ★★★½
• Sweetgrass - ★★★

T

• Taken 2 - ★½
• The Taqwacores - ★★
• Taris - ★★½
• Tehran Taboo - ★★★
• The Temptation of St. Tony - ★★★
• Terribly Happy - ★★★½ 
• Thank You For Your Service - ★★
• This is 40 - ★★★½
• This is Cinerama - ★★★
• The Thomas Crown Affair - ★★★
• Thoroughbreds - ★★★½
• Three Monkeys - ★★★½
• Three Songs About Lenin - ★★½
• Throw Down Your Heart - ★★½ 
• The Time That Remains - ★★★ 
• Tim's Vermeer - ★★
• Tiny Furniture - ★★★
• Titanic (1953) - ★★½
• To Die Like a Man - ★★★½
• Tokyo Sonata - ★★★½
• Tom of Finland - ★★★
• Towards Mathilde - ★★★½
• A Touch of Sin - ★★★½
• A Town Called Panic - ★★★
• Treeless Mountain - ★★★½ 
• The Tree of Life - ★★★★
• The Trip - ★★½
• The Trip to Bountiful - ★★★
• Tuesday, After Christmas - ★★★½
• Tulpan - ★★★
• Turn Me On, Dammit! - ★★★
• Turtle: The Incredible Journey - ★★½
• The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 - ★½
• Two Gates of Sleep - ★★★½ 
• Two Lovers - ★★★
• Two Orphan Vampires - ★★
• Two Thousand Maniacs! - ★ 
• Tyson - ★★★½

U

• Ugetsu - ★★★★
• Umberto D. - ★★★★
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives - ★★★★ 
• Under Capricorn - ★★★
• Under Our Skin - ★★★
• Unmistaken Child - ★★★★ 
• Unsane - ★★★

V

• Valhalla Rising - ★★★
• Venom - ★★
• Venus in Fur - ★★★
• Verdun: Looking at History - ★★★
• Vice - ★★
• Victoria & Abdul - ★★★
• Virgin Witch - ★★
• Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen - ★★★

W

• Wadjda - ★★★
• Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - ★★
• Watercolors - ★★½
• Weekend (1967) - ★★★★
• Weekend (2011) - ★★★
• We Have a Pope - ★★½
• We Need to Talk About Kevin - ★★
• Western - ★★★
• West of Memphis - ★★★
• Wetlands - ★★★
• White Material - ★★★½
• The Wife - ★★½
• Wild Grass - ★★★½
• Wild Horse, Wild Ride - ★★
• Whatever Works - ★★★½
• Where Soldiers Come From - ★★★ 
• Wild Horse, Wild Ride - ★★
• The White Ribbon - ★★★½ 
• White Zombie - ★★★
• Who is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him)? - ★★
• Whores' Glory - ★★★
• Widows - ★★★
• Wizards - ★★½
• A Woman in Berlin - ★★★
• The Woman in the Window - ★★★½
• The Woman with the Five Elephants - ★★★
• Women Without Men - ★★★
• Wonder - ★★★
• Wonder Wheel - ★★
• Won't Back Down - ★½
• Won't You Be My Neighbor? - ★★★½
• The Workshop - ★★★½
• World on a Wire - ★★★½
• World's Greatest Dad - ★★
• The Wound - ★★★

X

• XXY - ★★★★

Y

• Yes Man - ★½  
• The Yes Men Fix the World - ★★
• Young Mr. Lincoln - ★★★★

Z

• Zama - ★★★½
• Zero de conduite - ★★★★
• Zombie Lake - ½ star