Barb Bretz
Film & Book ReviewerFriday Film Reviewer & Monthly Book Reviewer
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“Living” premiered at Sundance 2022. Star Bill Nighy has a well-deserved Golden Globe nomination as Best Actor in a Motion Picture. -
The mechanical and technological pieces of a mission to Mars are overseen by various engineers in the documentary "The Longest Goodbye," but who determines the operational and emotional capabilities of the humans involved?
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Inspired by the lived experiences of Jewish women, lawsuits are currently being launched by rabbis, Jewish organizations and interfaith leaders to challenge the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
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“The Fabelmans” premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September and won the Peoples’ Choice Award.
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The last of Fredrik Backman’s Beartown trilogy, “The Winners” is a spectacular literary hat trick and Backman, an MVP.
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Based on a 95-page memoir written by recent Nobel Prize-winning author Annie Ernaux, “Happening” is a French film set in the 1960s with a theme that is surprisingly relevant 60 years later.
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"Final Cut" was the only film selected for the 2022 Sundance Film Festival that was pulled from the line up at the last minute for a very good reason.
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In Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, a hardworking London charwoman follows her dreams and takes viewers along on her adventure.
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Where the Crawdads Sing is the eagerly awaited film adaptation from the bestselling novel of the same name.
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Directed by Baz Luhrmann, the biopic Elvis premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival where it received a twelve minute standing ovation.
