It's not an angle normally seen in basketball films, but for Selvig, recruiting from reservations was a no-brainer.

This is a mid-life crisis story wrapped in gauzy metaphysics.

Writer-director Chris Columbus has been behind many hit movies, and likely would be listened to in any project.

Nobody says no to Dolly.

The Naudets give room for everyone to breathe, as bits of the firefighters’ personalities come out.

Filmed entirely in Portugal, it captures the look of the time without feeling self-consciously “period.”

Obviously, Ron Howard and his fellow filmmakers had no clue about the worldwide devastation to come in 2020, not from fire but from an invisible enemy that burns just as effectively through lives and economies.

To say that Greyhound has a plot would be stretching it.

The staging is sparse but inventive.

We hear a lot about ‘toxic masculinity,’ and how everything traditionally associated with men is bad. Seeing 1917 reminded me of how ridiculous that is.

It’s a gritty, moving, heartfelt film that explores the heart of a man in pain.

No great movie, but it is, as Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy said of Earth, "Mostly harmless." That's rare enough to earn it a qualified recommendation.